Israel's unkindness -- Of impiety and profaneness.

¹⁾The burden of the word of the LORDLord to Israel by Malachi.

²⁾I have loved you, saith the LORD.Lord, Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: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 LORDLord 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 LORDLord hath indignation for everforever.

⁵⁾And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORDLord will be magnified from the border of Israel.

⁶⁾A son honourethhonoreth his father, and a servant his master:; if then I be a father, where is mine honourhonor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORDLord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Whereinwherein have we despised thy name?

⁷⁾Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Whereinwherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORDLord 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 LORDLord 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 LORDLord of hosts.

¹⁰⁾Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for noughtnaught? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for noughtnaught. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORDLord 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 LORDLord of hosts.

¹²⁾But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORDLord 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 LORDLord 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 LORDLord.

¹⁴⁾But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORDLord a corrupt thing:; for I am a great King, saith the LORDLord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.