^{2 Ref} I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob;

^{3 Ref} but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and `gave' his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

^{4 Ref} Whereas Edom saith, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever.