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1:1  An oracle. The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.
1:2  I love you, says the Lord; but you say, “How do you love us?”
1:3  Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?—oracle of the Lord. I loved Jacob, but rejected Esau; I made his mountains a waste, his heritage a desert for jackals.
1:4  If Edom says, “We have been crushed, but we will rebuild the ruins,” Thus says the Lord of hosts: They indeed may build, but I will tear down, And they shall be called “territory of wickedness,” the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.
1:5  Your own eyes will see it, and you will say, “Great is the Lord, even beyond the territory of Israel.”
1:6  A son honors his father, and a servant fears his master; If, then, I am a father, where is the honor due to me? And if I am a master, where is the fear due to me? So says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who disdain my name. But you ask, “How have we disdained your name?”
1:7  By offering defiled food on my altar! You ask, “How have we defiled it?” By saying that the table of the Lord may be disdained!
1:8  When you offer a blind animal for sacrifice, is there no wrong in that? When you offer a lame or sick animal, is there no wrong in that? Present it to your governor! Will he be pleased with you—or show you favor? says the Lord of hosts.
1:9  So now implore God’s favor, that he may have mercy on us! You are the ones who have done this; Will he show favor to any of you? says the Lord of hosts.
1:10  Oh, that one of you would just shut the temple gates to keep you from kindling fire on my altar in vain! I take no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts; and I will not accept any offering from your hands!
1:11  From the rising of the sun to its setting, my name is great among the nations; Incense offerings are made to my name everywhere, and a pure offering; For my name is great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.
1:12  But you profane it by saying that the Lord’s table is defiled, and its food may be disdained.
1:13  You say, “See what a burden this is!” and you exasperate me, says the Lord of hosts; You bring in what is mutilated, or lame, or sick; you bring it as an offering! Will I accept it from your hands? says the Lord.
1:14  Cursed is the cheat who has in his flock an intact male, and vows it, but sacrifices to the Lord a defective one instead; For a great king am I, says the Lord of hosts, and my name is feared among the nations.