Malachi 1:1-3

1 An oracle: the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.

2 "I have loved you, " says the Lord. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?""Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says the Lord, "Yet I loved Jacob;

3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."