Malachi 1

1An oracle: The word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi.H4853H1697H3068H3478H3027H44012"I have loved you," says the LORD. "But you ask, 'How have you loved us?' "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" the LORD says. "Yet I have loved Jacob,H157H5002H3068H559H157H6215H3290H251H559H3068H157H32903but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals."H8130H6215H7760H2022H5159H8077H8568H40574Edom may say, "Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins." But this is what the LORD Almighty says: "They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the LORD.H123H559H7567H7725H1129H2723H559H3068H6635H1129H2040H7121H1366H7564H5971H3068H2194H5704H57695You will see it with your own eyes and say, 'Great is the LORD--even beyond the borders of Israel!'H5869H7200H559H3068H1431H1366H34786"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?" says the LORD Almighty. "It is you, O priests, who show contempt for my name. "But you ask, 'How have we shown contempt for your name?'H1121H3513H1H5650H113H1H3519H113H4172H559H3068H6635H3548H959H8034H559H959H80347"You place defiled food on my altar. "But you ask, 'How have we defiled you?' "By saying that the LORD'S table is contemptible.H5066H1351H3899H4196H559H1351H559H7979H3068H9598When you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice crippled or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?" says the LORD Almighty.H5066H5787H2076H7451H5066H6455H2470H7451H7126H6346H7521H5375H6440H559H3068H66359"Now implore God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?"--says the LORD Almighty.H2470H6440H410H2603H3027H5375H6440H559H3068H663510"Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you," says the LORD Almighty, "and I will accept no offering from your hands.H5462H1817H215H4196H2600H2656H559H3068H6635H7521H4503H302711My name will be great among the nations, from the rising to the setting of the sun. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to my name, because my name will be great among the nations," says the LORD Almighty.H4217H8121H3996H8034H1419H1471H4725H6999H5066H8034H2889H4503H8034H1419H1471H559H3068H663512"But you profane it by saying of the Lord's table, 'It is defiled,' and of its food, 'It is contemptible.'H2490H559H7979H3068H1351H5108H400H95913And you say, 'What a burden!' and you sniff at it contemptuously," says the LORD Almighty. "When you bring injured, crippled or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them from your hands?" says the LORD.H559H4972H5301H559H3068H6635H935H1497H6455H2470H935H4503H7521H3027H559H306814"Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great king," says the LORD Almighty, "and my name is to be feared among the nations.H779H5230H3426H5739H2145H5087H2076H136H7843H1419H4428H559H3068H6635H8034H3372H1471