The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Mal'achi.
2 ¶ I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
3 and I hated Esau, Rom. 9.13 and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
4 Whereas Edom Is. 34.5-17 ; 63.1-6 · Jer. 49.7-22 · Ezek. 25.12-14 ; 35.1-15 · Amos 1.11, 12 · 1.14 saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.