1: The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
|
|
2: I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast
thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved
Jacob, |
|
3:
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage
waste for the dragons of the wilderness. |
|
4: Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return
and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall
build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of
wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for
ever. |
|
5: And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be
magnified from the border of Israel. |
|
6: A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then
I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my
fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name.
And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? |
|
7: Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein
have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is
contemptible. |
|
8: And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and
if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy
governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the
LORD of hosts. |
|
9: And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto
us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the
LORD of hosts. |
|
10: Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for
nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no
pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an
offering at your hand. |
|
11: For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of
the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place
incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name
shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts. |
|
12: But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the
LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
|
|
13: Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have
snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was
torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I
accept this of your hand? saith the LORD. |
|
14: But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male,
and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a
great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the
heathen. |