Mal 1:2-3 | LEB | STEP | “I have loved you,” says Yahweh, but you say, “How have you loved us?” “ Is Esau not Jacob’s brother?” ⌞declares⌟ Yahweh. “I have loved Jacob,

Malachi 1:2-3

An Oracle Against Edom

2 “I have loved you,” says Yahweh, but you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is Esau not Jacob’s brother?” ⌞declares⌟ ^{▼▼Literally “declaration of”} Yahweh. “I have loved Jacob, 3 but Esau I have hated. I have made his ^{▼▼That is, “Esau’s”} mountain ranges a desolation, and given his inheritance to the jackals of the desert.”