1 The burden of the word of YHWH to Israel by the hand of Malachi: VP
2 “I have loved you⁺,” says YHWH. And you⁺ say, “In what way have You loved us?” “Was not Esau a brother to Jacob?” An utterance of YHWH. “And I have loved Jacob, VP
3 and Esau I have hated, and I set his mountains [as] a desolation and his inheritance for the jackals of the desert.” VP
4 If Edom should say, “We have been beaten down, and we will return and will build the ruins,” thus says YHWH of Hosts: “They may build, and I, I will tear down; and they will call to them the Territory of Wickedness, The people with whom YHWH will be angry even to forever. VP
5 And your⁺ eyes will see, and you⁺ will say, ‘Great is YHWH from beyond the border of Israel!’” VP
6 “A son honors [his] father, and a servant his master. And if I [am] the Father, where is My honor? And if I [am] the Master, where [is] the fear due Me?” Says YHWH of Hosts to you⁺, O priests despising My name. “And you⁺ say, ‘In what have we despised Your name?’ VP
7 By bringing near upon My altar food [that is] defiled. And you⁺ say, ‘In what way have we defiled You?’ By your⁺ saying [that] the table of YHWH, it is despised! VP
8 For when you⁺ offer the blind for a sacrifice, [is it] not evil? And when you⁺ offer the lame and sick, [is it] not evil? Bring it near now to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or would he lift up your face?” Says YHWH of Hosts. VP
9 “And now, beseech, please, the face of God, and He will be gracious to us. From your⁺ hand this has come; will he lift up your⁺ faces?” Says YHWH of Hosts. VP
10 “Who even among you⁺ will shut the doors, so that you⁺ could not kindle fire [on] My altar in vain? There is not for Me delight in you⁺,” says YHWH of Hosts, “And an offering I will not accept from your⁺ hand! VP
11 For from the rising of the sun to its going down, great [is] My name among the nations; in every place incense shall be offered to My name, and a pure offering. Indeed, My name will be great among the nations.” Says YHWH of Hosts. VP
12 “And you⁺ profane it by your⁺ saying, The table of the Lord, it is defiled,’ and of its fruit, ‘Its food is contemptible.’ VP
13 and You⁺ also say, ‘Behold, a weariness,’ and you⁺ sneer at it,” says YHWH of Hosts, “And you⁺ bring the stolen, and the lame, and the sick, and you⁺ bring the offering! Should I accept this from your⁺ hands?” Says YHWH. VP
14 “And cursed [is] the one plotting, and a male is in his flock, and vowing [it] and sacrificing [what] is blemished to the Lord. For I [am] a great King,” says YHWH of Hosts, “And My name is feared among the nations. VP