Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) toasts senior Russian officers as they meet in Moscow's Kremlin, July 29, 2002. Putin took part in a military awards ceremony. REUTERS/ITAR-TASS/KREMLIN PRESS SERVICE
Malachi 1
1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
Israel Beloved of God
2 "I have loved you," says the LORD.
"Yet you say, "In what way have You loved us?'
Was not Esau Jacob's brother?"
Says the LORD.
"Yet Jacob I have loved;
3But Esau I have hated,
And laid waste his mountains and his heritage
For the jackals of the wilderness."
4Even though Edom has said,
"We have been impoverished,
But we will return and build the desolate places,"
Thus says the LORD of hosts:
"They may build, but I will throw down;
They shall be called the Territory of Wickedness,
And the people against whom the LORD will have indignation forever.
5Your eyes shall see,
And you shall say,
"The LORD is magnified beyond the border of Israel.'
Edom: Literally Red
Edom has said, we are impoverished [give us wheat, IMF money]
We will return, and build the desolate places [Ancient Babylon/Iraq]