Chapter 1
- 1:1
- The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
- 1:2
- 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,
- 1:3
- And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the
wilderness.
- 1:4
- 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.
- 1:5
- And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of
Israel.
- 1:6
- 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?
- 1:7
- 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.
- 1:8
- 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.
- 1:9
- 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.
- 1:10
- 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.
- 1:11
- 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.
- 1:12
- 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.
- 1:13
- 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.
- 1:14
- 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.