Malachi Chapter 1 Back Next{1:1} An oracle: the word of
Yahweh to
Israel by
Malachi.
{1:2} "I have loved you," says Yahweh. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't
Esau Jacob's
brother?" says Yahweh, "Yet I loved Jacob;
{1:3} but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
{1:4} Whereas
Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places"; thus says Yahweh of Armies, "They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever."
{1:5} Your eyes will see, and you will say, "Yahweh is great--even beyond the border of Israel!"
{1:6} "A son honors his
father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'
{1:7} You offer polluted
bread on my
altar. You say, 'How have we polluted you?' In that you say, 'Yahweh's table contemptible.'
{1:8} When you offer the
blind for sacrifice, isn't that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn't that evil? Present it now to your
governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?" says Yahweh of Armies.
{1:9} "Now, please entreat the favor of
God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?" says Yahweh of Armies.
{1:10} "Oh that there were one among you who would shut the
doors, that you might not kindle
fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of Armies, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
{1:11} For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place
incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations," says Yahweh of Armies.
{1:12} "But you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its
fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'
{1:13} You say also, 'Behold, what a weariness it is!' and you have sniffed at it," says Yahweh of Armies; "and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?" says Yahweh.
{1:14} "But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the
Lord a
blemished thing; for I am a great
King," says Yahweh of Armies, "and my name is awesome among the nations."
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