Malachi 1:1 CPDV

¹  The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of Malachi.

²  I have loved you, says the Lord, and you have said, 'In what way have you loved us?' Was not Esau brother to Jacob, says the Lord? And have I not loved Jacob,

³  but held hatred for Esau? And I have set his mountains in solitude, and his inheritance with the serpents of the desert.