Malachi Chapter 1

• Malachi 1:1
  A revelation, the LORD’s word to Israel by Malachi.
• Malachi 1:2
  “I have loved you,” says the LORD. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the LORD, “Yet I loved Jacob;
• Malachi 1:3
  but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
• Malachi 1:4
  Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places,” the LORD of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw d...
• Malachi 1:5
  Your eyes will see, and you will say, “The LORD is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”
• Malachi 1:6
  “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says...
• Malachi 1:7
  You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘The LORD’s table is contemptible.’
• Malachi 1:8
  When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will ...
• 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.
• Malachi 1:10
  “Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says the L...
• Malachi 1:11
  For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and ...
• Malachi 1:12
  “But you profane it when you say, ‘The LORD’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’
• Malachi 1:13
  You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ And you have sniffed at it”, says the LORD of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by vi...
• Malachi 1:14
  “But the deceiver is cursed who has in his flock a male, and vows and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says the LORD ...