Edom’s Ruins

2“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares Yahweh. “Yet I loved Jacob,

3but I hated Esau. I made his mountains desolate and his inherited land a home for the jackals of the wilderness.”

4Though Edom says, “We are shattered, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what Yahweh of Armies says: “They may build, but I will tear down. They will be called ‘the territory of wickedness’ and ‘the people with whom Yahweh is indignant forever.’”

5Your own eyes will see this, and you yourselves will say, “Great is Yahweh beyond Israel’s borders!”