The Lord's Love for Israel

Malachi 1:1-5

1  The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. 
2  I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, 
3  And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. 
4  Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever. 
5  And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.