1 The burden of a word of JEHOVAH unto Israel by the hand of Malachi:

2 I have loved you, said JEHOVAH, And ye have said, ‘In what hast Thou loved us?’

3 Is not Esau Jacob's brother? — an affirmation of JEHOVAH, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.