1:1   The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi.

1:2   "I have loved you," says the LORD But you say, "How have You loved us?" "Did not Jacob have a brother Esau ?" declares the LORD "Yet I have loved Jacob;

1:3   but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness."

1:4  Though Edom says, "We have received ruin, but we will return and build up the ruins"; thus says the LORD of hosts, "They may build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the wicked territory, and the people toward whom the LORD maintains His indignity forever."

1:5   Your eyes will see this and you will say, " The LORD has become magnifies beyond the border of Israel!"

1:6  " A son honors his father, and a servant honors his master Then if you consider me a father, where have you honored me?And if you consider me a master, why don't you respect me? 'says the Lord of hosts to you , O priests who despise my name. But you say, How have we despised your name. '

1:7   "You present defiled food upon My altar But you say, 'How have we defiled You?' In that you say, 'We have despised the table of the LORD.'

1:8  "But when you present the blind for sacrifice, do you not do that with an evil motive? And when you present the lame and sick, do you not do it with an evil motive? Why not offer it to your governor? Would he take satisfaction with you? Or would he receive you kindly?" says the LORD of hosts.

1:9   "But now will you not entreat God's favor, that He may show graciousness to us? With such an offering on your part, will He receive any of you kindly?" says the LORD of hosts.

1:10  "Oh if only someone among you would shut the gates, that you might not uselessly kindle fire on My altar! I take no pleasure with you," says the LORD of hosts, " nor will I accept an offering from you.

1:11  "For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, The nations will exalt my name among the nations, and in every place They will offer incense in My name, and offer a pure grain offering; for the nations will glorify My name," says the LORD of hosts.

1:12   "But you profane it, in that you say, 'The table of the Lord looks defiled, and as for its fruit, we despise its food.'

1:13  "You also say, 'My, how tiresome we find it!' And you disdainfully sniff at it," says the LORD of hosts, "and you bring what you took by robbery and what has become lame or sick; so you bring the offering! Should I receive that from your hand?" says the LORD.

1:14  "But God curses the swindler who has a male in his flock and vows it, but sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord, for I have demonstrated myself a great King," says the LORD of hosts, "and the nations fear My name ."