[1:2] “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob
[1:3] but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”
[1:4] If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.’”
[1:5] Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, “Great is the Lord beyond the border of Israel!”