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Malachi cites Jacob and Esau to answer Israel’s question about God’s love Malachi 1:2. God says he loved Jacob but made Esau’s hill country a desolation Malachi 1:2–3. The contrast is used as historical proof of God’s covenant choice and judgment Malachi 1:4–5.
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.