^{2 Ref} I have loved you, said Jehovah, And ye have said, `In what hast Thou loved us?'

^{3 Ref} Is not Esau Jacob's brother? -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.

^{4 Ref} Because Edom saith, `We have been made poor, And we turn back and we build the wastes,' Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They do build, and I do destroy, And `men' have called to them, `O region of wickedness,' `O people whom Jehovah defied to the age.'

^{5 Ref} And your eyes do see, and ye say, `Magnified is Jehovah beyond the border of Israel,