Malachi:1

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* The burden of the Word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi . * I have loved you , says the LORD . But you say , In what have You loved us ? [Was ] not Esau Jacob 's brother ? says the LORD ; yet I loved Jacob , * and I hated Esau and made his mountains a desolation , and his inheritance [to be ] for the jackals of the wilderness . * If Edom says , We are beaten down , but we will return and build the waste places . So says the LORD of hosts , They shall build , but I will throw down ; and they shall call them the region of wickedness , and the people [with ] whom the LORD [is ] indignant forever . * And your eyes shall see , and you shall say , The LORD will be magnified beyond the border of Israel . * A son honors his father , and a servant his master . If then I [am ] a father , where is My honor ? And if I [am ] a master , where is My fear ? says the LORD of hosts to you , O priests who despise My name . And you say , In what way have we despised Your name ? * You offer defiled bread upon My altar ; and you say , In what way have we defiled You ? In your saying , The table of the LORD , it [is ] a thing to be despised . * And if you offer the blind for sacrifice , [is it ] not evil ? And if you offer the lame and the sick , [is it ] not evil ? Bring it now to your governor . Will he accept you , or lift up your face , says the LORD of hosts ? * And now entreat the face of God , that He favor us . This has been by your hands , will He lift up your faces , says the LORD of hosts ? * Who [is ] even among you who will shut the doors , and you not kindle [fire on ] My altar in vain ! I have no pleasure in you , says the LORD of hosts . I will not be pleased with an offering from you . * For from the rising of the sun even to its going in , My name shall be great among the nations ; and everywhere incense shall be offered to My name , and a pure food offering . For My name [shall be ] great among the nations , says the LORD of hosts . * But you are profaning it when you say , The table of the LORD , it [is ] polluted ; and its fruit , His food , [is ] to be despised . * You also said , Behold , what a weariness [it is ]! And you have puffed at it , says the LORD of hosts . And you bring plunder , and the lame , and the sick , and you bring the food offering . Should I accept it from your hand , says the LORD ? * But cursed [be ] a deceiver ; and there is in his flock a male , yet he vows it , but sacrifices to the LORD a blemished [one ]. For I [am ] a great king , says the LORD of hosts , and My name [is ] feared among the nations .

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