ÒI have loved
you,Ó says the LORD. But you ask,
ÒHow have you loved us?Ó ÒWas not Esau JacobÕs brother?Ó the
LORD says. ÒYet I have loved Jacob, but Esau I
have hated, and I have turned
his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.Ó Edom may say, ÒThough we have been crushed, we will rebuild the
ruins.Ó But this is what the LORD Almighty says, ÒThey may
build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a
people always under the wrath
of the LORD.Ó (Malachi 1:2-4)