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The LORD’s Love for Israel
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|Malaquias 1:1| An oracle: a The word of the LORD b to Israel through c Malachi. 1
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|Malaquias 1:2| “I have loved you,” d says the LORD. But you ask: “How have You loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” e This is the LORD’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob,
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|Malaquias 1:3| but I hated Esau. f I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.” g
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|Malaquias 1:4| Though Edom says: “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild 2 the ruins,” the LORD of Hosts says this: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country h and the people the LORD has cursed 3 forever. i
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|Malaquias 1:5| Your own eyes will see this, and you yourselves will say, ‘The LORD is great, even beyond 4 the borders of Israel.’ j
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Disobedience of the Priests
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|Malaquias 1:6| “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me? k says Yahweh of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name.” Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name?”
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|Malaquias 1:7| “By presenting defiled food on My altar.” You ask: “How have we defiled You?” l When you say: “The LORD’s table is contemptible.” m
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|Malaquias 1:8| “When you present a blind animal for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present a lame or sick animal, is it not wrong? n Bring it to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.
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|Malaquias 1:9| “And now ask for God’s favor. Will He be gracious to us? o Since this has come from your hands, will He show any of you favor?” p asks the LORD of Hosts.
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|Malaquias 1:10| “I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, q so you would no longer kindle a useless fire on My altar! r I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept s no offering from your hands. t
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