¹ The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. ² I have loved you, says the LORD. Yet you say, In which have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the 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 says, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; so says the LORD of hosts, They will build, but I will throw down; and they will call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against who the LORD has indignation for ever. ⁵ And your eyes will see, and you will say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel. ⁶ A son honours 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? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, In which have we despised your name? ⁷ You offer polluted bread on mine altar; and you say, In which have we polluted you? In that you say, The table of the LORD is contemptible. ⁸ And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now to your governor; will he be pleased with you, or accept your person? says the LORD of hosts. ⁹ And now, I pray you, beg God that he will be gracious to us: this has been by your means: will he regard your persons? says the LORD of hosts. ¹⁰ Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nothing? neither do you kindle fire on mine altar for nothing. I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. 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 heathen, says the LORD of hosts. ¹² But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit of it, even his meat, is contemptible. ¹³ You said also, See, what a weariness is it! and you have snuffed at it, says the LORD of hosts; and you brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; so you brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? says the LORD. ¹⁴ But cursed be the deceiver, which has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.