1Oracular burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by the hand of the angel of the LORD.2"I have loved you," says the LORD. But you said, "In what way have you loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the LORD. "Yet I loved Jacob."3And I have hated Esau, and I will put his mountains to desolation and his inheritance to the howlings of the wilderness.4Because Edom will say, "We are shattered, but we will return and build the ruins." The LORD of hosts says: They will build, but I will tear down. They will call them the territory of wickedness, the people against whom the LORD is indignant forever.5Your eyes will see, and you will say, "The LORD will be magnified beyond the border of Israel."