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¹ The burden of the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.² I have loved you, says Yahweh. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved us? Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother, says Yahweh: yet I loved Jacob;³ but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.⁴ Whereas Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; this is what Yahweh of Hosts says, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Yahweh has indignation forever.⁵ And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, May Yahweh be magnified beyond the border of Israel.

⁶ A son honors his father, and a slave his master: if then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says Yahweh of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, Wherein have we despised your name?⁷ You offer polluted bread on my altar. And you say, Wherein have we polluted you? In that you say, The table of Yahweh is contemptible.⁸ And when you offer the blind for sacrifice, it is no evil! and when you offer the lame and sick, it is no evil! Present it now to your governor; will he be pleased with you? or will he accept your person? says Yahweh of hosts.⁹ And now, I pray you, entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us: this has been by your means: will he accept any of your persons? says Yahweh of hosts.¹⁰ Oh that there were one among you that would shut the doors, that you might not kindle [fire on] my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says Yahweh of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.¹¹ For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense [shall be] offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles, says Yahweh of hosts.¹² But you profane it, in that you say, The table of Yahweh is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even its food, is contemptible.¹³ You also say, Look, what a weariness it is! and you have snuffed at it, says Yahweh of hosts; and you have brought that which was taken by violence, and the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering: should I accept this at your hand? says Yahweh.¹⁴ But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King, says Yahweh of hosts, and my name is awesome among the Gentiles.