¹The oracle of the word of Yahweh to Israel, in the hand of Malachi.

²I loved you, Yahweh said. Yet you say, In what did you love us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob, the utterance of Yahweh? And I loved Jacob,

³and Esau I hated. I put his mountain a wasteland and his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.

⁴If Edom will say, We are crushed, but we will return and we will build the ruins; like this Yahweh of hosts said: They will build, but I will demolish. And they will be called the boundary of wickedness, and the people whom Yahweh denounced in forever.

⁵And your eyes will see, and you will say, Yahweh will become great from over the boundary of Israel.

⁶A son will honor a father, and a slave his lord. If I am a father, where is the weightiness? And if I am lords, where is my fear? Yahweh of hosts said to you, the priests who despised my name. Yet you say, In what did we despise your name?

⁷You drew near defiled food over my altar. Yet you say, In what did we defile you? In your saying, The table of Yahweh, it is despised.

⁸And when you draw near the blind to sacrifice, there is no evil? And when you draw near the lame and the sick, there is no evil? Draw it near to your governor; will he receive you, or will he lift up your face? Yahweh of hosts said.

⁹And now, be ill the face of God, that he may show favor to us. From your hand was this; will he lift up faces from you? Yahweh of hosts said.

¹⁰Who also among you, that he would close up the doors, and you would not make my altar shine for nothing? There is no delight to me in you, Yahweh of hosts said, and a grain offering I will not receive from your hand.

¹¹For from the east side of the sun and to his sunset, great is my name in the nations, and in all place turned to smoke is drawn near to my name, and a clean grain offering; for great is my name in the nations, Yahweh of hosts said.

¹²But you profaned to defile it, in your saying, The table of the Lord, it is defiled, and his produce, his food is despised.

¹³And you say, Behold, what! and you blew it, Yahweh of hosts said. And you brought the seized, and the lame, and that which ills; you brought the grain offering. Will I receive it from your hand? Yahweh said.

¹⁴And cursed is the one who deals deceptively, and there is in his arrangement a male, and one who makes a vow, and one who sacrifices a corrupted thing to the Lord. For I am a great king, Yahweh of hosts said, and my name is feared in the nations.