1:1 The burden of the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.
1:2 I have loved you+, says Yahweh. Yet you+ say, In what have you loved us? Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother, says Yahweh: yet I loved Jacob;
1:3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
1:4 Whereas Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; this is what Yahweh of Hosts says, They will build, but I will throw down; and men will call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Yahweh has indignation forever.
1:5 And your+ eyes will see, and you+ will say, May Yahweh be magnified beyond the border of Israel.
1:6 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, In what have we despised your name?
1:7 You+ offer polluted bread on my altar. And you+ say, In what have we polluted you? In that you+ say, The table of Yahweh is contemptible.
1:8 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.
1:9 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.
1:10 Oh that there were one among you+ who 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.
1:11 For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same my name [will be] great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense [will be] offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name [will be] great among the Gentiles, says Yahweh of hosts.
1:12 But you+ profane it, in that you+ say, The table of Yahweh is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.
1:13 You+ also say, Look, what a weariness it is! And you+ have snorted 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.
1:14 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.