Mal Malachi, chapter Book of Malachi, chapter 1
“I have loved you,” says the LORD.
But you ask, “How have You loved us?”
“Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved, Rom 9:13but Esau I have hated,1:3 Cited in Romans 9:13 and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.1:3 Or to the serpents of the wilderness or to the dragons of the wilderness”Isa 13:22; Jer 9:11; Ezk 35:9