Malachi 1
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The Lord’s Love for Israel
1An oracle: # Is 13:1; Zch 9:1; 12:1 The word of the Lord # Hs 1:1; Jl 1:1; Mc 1:1; Zph 1:1 to Israel through # Jr 37:2; Hg 1:1 Malachi. # = My Messenger
2“I have loved you,” # Dt 4:37; 7:6-8; 10:14-15; Neh 13:26; Ps 78:68 says the Lord.
But you ask: “How have You loved us? ”
“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother? ” # Gn 25:25-26; 36:19 This is the Lord’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob, 3but I hated Esau. # Gn 25:23; Rm 9:10-13 I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.” # Is 34:5-17; Jr 49:7-22; Ezk 35:1-15
4Though Edom says: “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild # Or will return and build the ruins,” the Lord of Hosts says this: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country # Mal 3:12,15 and the people the Lord has cursed # Or Lord is angry with forever. # Is 34:5-17; Jr 49:17-18; Mal 1:14; 2:2; 3:9; 4:6 5Your own eyes will see this, and you yourselves will say, ‘The Lord is great, even beyond # Or great over the borders of Israel.’ # Ps 67:1-7; 72:8-11; Ezk 39:7; Zch 12:1-10; Rm 11:11-12
Disobedience of the Priests
6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me? # 1Sm 2:30; Dn 5:23; Hg 1:8 says Yahweh of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name.”
Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name? ”
7“By presenting defiled food on My altar.”
You ask: “How have we defiled You? ” # Ezk 22:26
When you say: “The Lord’s table is contemptible.” # Ezk 41:22; 44:16
8“When you present a blind animal for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present a lame or sick animal, is it not wrong? # Lv 22:18-25; Dt 15:21; 17:1 Bring it to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor? ” asks the Lord of Hosts. 9“And now ask for God’s favor. Will He be gracious to us? # 1Sm 13:12; Pr 19:6; Dn 9:13 Since this has come from your hands, will He show any of you favor? ” # Nm 6:25-26 asks the Lord of Hosts. 10“I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, # 2Ch 28:24 so you would no longer kindle a useless fire on My altar! # Pr 1:17; Is 1:14 I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and I will accept # Lv 22:19-21 no offering from your hands. # Is 1:10-17; Jr 6:20; Am 5:21-23; Mc 6:6-8
11“For My name will be great among the nations, # Ps 113:3; Is 45:6; 59:19; Mt 8:11 from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense # Or Burnt offerings and pure offerings will be presented in My name in every place because My name will be great among the nations,” # Or is great . . . are presented . . . is great says Yahweh of Hosts.
12But you are profaning it # Lv 22:2; Ezk 13:19; 22:26; 36:20-23; Mal 2:10-11 when you say: “The Lord’s table is defiled, and its product, its food, is contemptible.” 13You also say: “Look, what a nuisance! ” “And you scorn # Lit blow at it,” # Ancient Jewish tradition reads Me # 1Sm 2:29 says the Lord of Hosts. “You bring stolen, # Or injured # 2Sm 24:24 lame, or sick animals. You bring this as an offering! Am I to accept that from your hands? ” asks the Lord.
14“The deceiver is cursed who has an acceptable male in his flock and makes a vow but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. # Lv 22:18-25; 27:9-10; Nm 30:2; Dt 23:21-23; Ec 5:4-7 For I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Hosts, “and My name # Or Because I am . . . Yahweh of Hosts, My name will be feared among the nations.
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Malachi 1
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1The burden of the Devar Hashem to Yisroel by Malachi.
2I have loved you, saith Hashem. Yet ye say, Wherein hast Thou loved us? Was not Esav Ya'akovʼs brother? saith Hashem; yet I loved Ya'akov,
3But I hated Esav, and his mountains and his nachalah I laid waste into wasteland for the jackals of the midbar.
4Whereas Edom saith, We are dashed to pieces, but we will return and rebuild the ruins; thus saith Hashem Tzva'os: They may build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, Gevul Rishah (territory of wickedness), and the people against whom Hashem hath indignation ad olam (for ever).
5And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Hashem is gadol (great) even beyond the Gevul Yisroel.
6A ben honoreth his av, and an eved his adon; if then I be an Av, where is Mine honor? And if I be Adonim, where is My reverence? saith Hashem Tzva'os unto you, O kohanim, that despise My Name. But ye say, Wherein have we despised Thy name?
7Ye offer lechem mego'al (defiled food) upon Mine mizbe'ach; and ye say, Wherein have we defiled Thee? In that ye say, The shulchan of Hashem is to be despised.
8And when ye offer the blind animal for sacrifice, is it not rah? And when ye offer the lame and diseased, is it not rah? Offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or receive thee? saith Hashem Tzva'os.
9And now, I pray you, beseech G-d that He will be gracious unto us; with such offerings from your hand, will He receive you? saith Hashem Tzva'os.
10Who is there even among you that would shut the dlatayim of the Beis Hamikdash so that eish would not be kindled on Mine mizbe'ach in vain? There is no chefetz (pleasure) to Me with you, saith Hashem Tzva'os, neither will I accept a minchah at your hand.
11For from the rising of the shemesh even unto the going down of the same My name shall be gadol among the Goyim; and in every place incense shall be offered unto My name, and a minchah tehorah; for My name shall be gadol among the Goyim, saith Hashem Tzva'os.
12But ye have committed chillul Hashem (desecration of the Name), in that ye say, The shulchan Adonoi is mego'al (defiled); and the fruit, even the food thereof, is contemptible.
13Ye said also, Hinei, what a burden it is! And ye have sniffed scornfully at it, saith Hashem Tzva'os; and ye brought that which was injured, and the lame, and the diseased; thus ye brought a minchah; should I accept this of your hand? saith Hashem.
14But cursed be the nokhel (cheat, swindler, charlatan), which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto Hashem the one being blemished; for I am a Melech Gadol, saith Hashem Tzva'os, and My name is to be feared among the Goyim.
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