Malachi 1
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“I Loved Jacob, but Esau I Hated”
1This is a divine revelation. The Lord spoke his word to Israel through Malachi.
2“I loved you,” says the Lord.
“But you ask, ‘How did you love us?’
“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “I loved Jacob, 3but Esau I hated. I turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the jackals in the desert.
4“The descendants of Esau may say, ‘We have been beaten down, but we will rebuild the ruins.’
“Yet, this is what the Lord of Armies says: They may rebuild, but I will tear it down. They will be called ‘the Wicked Land’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is always angry.’ 5You will see these things with your own eyes and say, ‘Even outside the borders of Israel the Lord is great.’
The Priests Offer Unacceptable Sacrifices to the LORD
6“This is what the Lord of Armies says: A son honors his father, and a servant honors his master. So if I am a father, where is my honor? If I am a master, where is my respect? You priests despise my name.
“But you ask, ‘How have we despised your name?’
7“You offer contaminated food on my altar.
“But you ask, ‘Then how have we contaminated you?’
“When you say that the Lord’s table may be despised. 8When you bring a blind animal to sacrifice, isn’t that wrong? When you bring a lame or a sick animal, isn’t that wrong? Try offering it to your governor. Would he accept it from you? Would he welcome you?” asks the Lord of Armies.
9“Now try asking God to be kind to you. This is what you are doing! Will he welcome you?” asks the Lord of Armies.
10“I wish one of you would shut the doors ⌞to my house⌟ so that you could not light fires on my altar for no reason. I’m not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Armies, “and I won’t accept your offerings.
11“From the nations where the sun rises to the nations where the sun sets, my name will be great. Incense and pure offerings will be offered everywhere in my name, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord of Armies. 12“But you dishonor it when you say that the Lord’s table may be contaminated and that its food may be despised.
13“You say, ‘Oh what a nuisance it is,’ and you sniff at it in disgust,” says the Lord of Armies. “You bring stolen, lame, and sick animals. When you bring such offerings, should I accept them from you?” asks the Lord.
14“Cheaters are under a curse. They have male animals in their flocks that they vow to give ⌞as a sacrifice⌟. But they sacrifice second-rate ones to the Lord instead. I am a great king,” says the Lord of Armies. “Among the nations my name is respected.
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Malachi 1
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Malachi 1
1¶ The burden of the word of the Lord against Israel by the hand of Malachi.
2I have loved you, said the Lord. Yet ye say, In what hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? said the Lord; yet I loved Jacob,
3and I rejected Esau and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
4When Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus hath the Lord of the hosts said, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The province of wickedness and the people against whom the Lord has indignation for ever.
5And your eyes shall see and ye shall say, The Lord will be magnified over the province of Israel.
6¶ The son honours his father and the slave his master; if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is my fear? said the Lord of the hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, In what have we despised thy name?
7Ye offer polluted bread upon my altar; and ye say, In what have we polluted thee? In that ye say, We die of hunger in the service of the Lord.
8And when ye offer the blind animal for sacrifice, is it not evil? Likewise when ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy prince; will he be pleased with thee or accept thy person? said the Lord of the hosts.
9And now, therefore, beseech the face of God, and he will have compassion on us; this has come by your hand: will he regard your persons? said the Lord of the hosts.
10Who is there even among you that would shut the doors or tend the fire on my altar for free? I have no pleasure in you, said the Lord of the hosts, neither will the offering from your hand be agreeable unto me.
11For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense is offered unto my name, and a clean offering; for my name is great among the Gentiles, said the Lord of the hosts.
12And ye have profaned it when ye say, We die of hunger at the service of the Lord and when ye speak that his food is contemptible.
13And ye say, Behold, what a weariness it is! and ye have rejected it, said the Lord of the hosts; and ye brought that which was stolen or lame or sick and presented an offering: should this be acceptable unto me by your hand? said the Lord.
14But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male and vows and sacrifices unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the Lord of the hosts, and my name is formidable among the Gentiles.
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