1An oracle, the word of the LORD to Israel, by the hand of Malachi.2I have loved you, says the LORD. Yet you say, How have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? declares the LORD. Yet I loved Jacob.3And Esau I hated; I set his mountains in desolation and his inheritance to the dragons of the wilderness.4For Edom says, We have been beaten down, yet we will return and rebuild the ruins. Thus says the LORD of Hosts: They will build, but I will overthrow; they will call their border the border of wickedness, and the people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.5Your eyes will see it, and you will say, May the LORD be magnified from beyond the border of Israel.