Malachi 1:9

"“Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says the LORD of Armies."

Key Reflection

This verse reflects a rhetorical challenge, suggesting that even in seeking divine favor through prayers and petitions, there is doubt as to whether such efforts are sufficient for acceptance by God. It underscores a theme of divine impartiality and the inadequacy of human works to secure divine grace on their own.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And now entreat, I pray you, Godothat He will be gracious unto you -This is not a call to repentance, for he assumes that God would not accept them. It is rather irony; “go now, seek the favor of God, as ye would not that of your governor.” “From your hand,” not from your fathers, not from aliens, “hath this been: will He accept persons from you?” The unusual construction seems to imply a difference of meaning; as if he would say, that it consisted not with the justice of God, that He should be an “accepter of persons,” (which He declares that He is not) which yet He would be, were He to accep

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