Chapter 1
1: The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
2: I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet
ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
3: And I
hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
4: Whereas Edom
saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall
build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath
indignation for ever.
5: And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border
of Israel.
6: A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine
honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye
say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
7: Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have
we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
8: And if ye offer the blind for
sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be
pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
9: And now, I pray you, beseech God that he
will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.
10: Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for
nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
11: For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles;
and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen,
saith the LORD of hosts.
12: But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and
the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
13: Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye
have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought
an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
14: But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in
his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts,
and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
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