Malachi 1:1-10 ▼

1 The burden of the word of YHWH to Israel by the hand of Malachi:

2 “I have loved you?,” says YHWH. And you? say, “In what way have You loved us?” “Was not Esau a brother to Jacob?” An utterance of YHWH. “And I have loved Jacob,

3 and Esau I have hated, and I set his mountains as a desolation and his inheritance for the jackals of the desert.”

4 If Edom should say, “We have been beaten down, and we will return and will build the ruins,” thus says YHWH of Hosts: “They may build, and I, I will tear down; and they will call to them the Territory of Wickedness, The people with whom YHWH will be angry even to forever.

5 And your? eyes will see, and you? will say, ‘Great is YHWH from beyond the border of Israel!’”

6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. And if I am the Father, where is My honor? And if I am the Master, where is the fear due Me?” Says YHWH of Hosts to you?, O priests despising My name. “And you? say, ‘In what have we despised Your name?’

7 By bringing near upon My altar food that is defiled. And you? say, ‘In what way have we defiled You?’ By your? saying that the table of YHWH, it is despised!

8 For when you? offer the blind as a sacrifice, is it not evil? And when you? offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Offer it now to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or would he lift up your face?” Says YHWH of Hosts.

9 “And now, beseech, please, the face of God, and He will be gracious to us. From your? hand this has come; will he lift up your? faces?” Says YHWH of Hosts.

10 “Who even among you? will shut the doors, so that you? could not kindle fire on My altar in vain? There is not for Me delight in you?,” says YHWH of Hosts, “And an offering I will not accept from your? hand!