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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAL.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Edom may say, &#8220;Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAL.1.4"><span class="content">But this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says: &#8220;They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAL.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You will see it with your own eyes and say, &#8216;Great is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;even beyond the borders of Israel!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Breaking Covenant Through Blemished Sacrifices</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAL.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAL.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAL.1.6"><span class="content">&#8220;It is you priests who show contempt for my name.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAL.1.6"><span class="content">&#8220;But you ask, &#8216;How have we shown contempt for your name?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAL.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAL.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;By offering defiled food on my altar.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAL.1.7"><span class="content">&#8220;But you ask, &#8216;How have we defiled you?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAL.1.7"><span class="content">&#8220;By saying that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s table is contemptible. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAL.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAL.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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