Mal 1:1-4 | NASB2020 | STEP | The pronouncement of the word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi :

Malachi 1:1-4

God’s Love for Jacob

1 The ^apronouncement of the word of the Lord to ^bIsrael through ^{▼▼Or My messenger}Malachi:

2 “I have ^dloved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was Esau not Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I ^ehave loved Jacob; 3 but I have hated Esau, and I have ^fmade his mountains a desolation and given his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.” 4 Though Edom says, “We have been ^gbeaten down, but we will ^{▼▼Or rebuild the ruins
,} ⁱreturn and build up the ruins”; this is what the Lord of armies says: “They may ^jbuild, but I will tear down; and people will call them the ^{▼▼Lit border of wickedness}territory of wickedness, and the people ^{▼▼Or whom the Lord has cursed}with whom the Lord is indignant ^mforever.”