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God opens Malachi by declaring, "I have loved you" Malachi 1:2. When Israel questions that love, God points to his choice of Jacob over Esau as evidence Malachi 1:2–3. The passage contrasts Israel’s covenant favor with Edom’s judgment Malachi 1:3–5.
2I have loved you, says Yahweh. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob`s brother, says Yahweh: yet I loved Jacob;
3but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
4Whereas Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus says Yahweh of Hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Yahweh has indignation forever.
5Your eyes shall see, and you shall say, Yahweh be magnified beyond the border of Israel.