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)