Malachi 1:3 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.

⁴  But if Idumea will say, 'We have been destroyed, but when we return, we will build up what has been destroyed,' thus says the Lord of hosts: They will build up, and I will destroy. And they will be called 'The limits of impiety,' and, 'The people with whom the Lord has been angry, even to eternity.'

⁵  And your eyes will see. And you will say, 'May the Lord be magnified beyond the limits of Israel.'