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Malachi 1

CHAPTER 1 The LORD Loves Jacob

1 The concern of the word of the lord over Israel by the hand of his messenger. 2 I loved you, says the lord. And you said, [³in ⁴what ¹You loved ²us]? [²not ⁵brother ¹Was ³Esau ⁴Jacob's]? says the lord; and I loved Jacob. 3 And Esau I detested, and I ordered up his borders for extinction, and his inheritance for domiciles of the wilderness. 4 Because [²will say, ¹Edom], He was eradicated, and we should return and should rebuild places having been made desolate. Thus says the lord almighty, They shall build, and I shall eradicate; and it shall be called by them, Borders of lawlessness, and, a people against whom the lord deployed unto the eon. 5 And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, The lord was magnified up above the borders of Israel.

The Priests Dishonor The LORD

6 A son glorifies a father, and a servant his master. And if [³father ²am ¹I], where is my glory? And if [³the lord ²am ¹I], where is the fear of me, says the lord almighty? You, the priests, are the ones treating [²as worthless ¹my name]. And you said, [³in ⁴what ¹We treated as worthless ²your name]? 7 In bringing to my altar [²bread loaves ¹polluted]. And you say, [²in ³what ¹We polluted]? In your saying, The table of the lord is polluted; and the things being placed upon it are thereby treated with contempt. 8 For if you should bring a blind animal for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if you should bring the lame or ill, is it not evil? Bring it indeed to him, to the one leading you; shall he favorably receive you, shall he receive your person, says the lord almighty, no. 9 And now, atone the face of your God, and beseech him! By your hands these have taken place. Shall I receive from your person your things, says the lord almighty, no. 10 Because even among you [²shall be closed ¹the doors], and you shall not light my altar gratuitously. There is not of me anything wanting among you, says the lord almighty. A sacrifice I shall not favorably receive from out of your hands. 11 For from the rising of the sun, and unto the descent, my name was glorified among the nations; and in every place incense is brought in my name -- even [²sacrifice ¹a pure]. For great is my name among the nations, says the lord almighty. 12 But you profane it in your saying, The table of the lord is polluted; and [³placed upon it ⁴are treated with contempt ²foods ¹his]. 13 And you said, Behold, it is troublesome. And you blew them away, says the lord almighty; and you carried in the prey, and the lame, and the troubled. And thus you brought in the sacrifice. Shall I favorably receive them from your hands, says the lord almighty, no. 14 And accursed be the man who was mighty, and [²existed ³among ⁴his flock ¹a male], and his vow was upon him, and he sacrifices a thing being corrupted to the lord. For [⁴king ³great ¹I ²am], says the lord almighty, and my name is prominent among the nations.