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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Malachi 1 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/malachi/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/malachi/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Malachi 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../zechariah/14.htm" title="Zechariah 14">◄</a> Malachi 1 <a href="../malachi/2.htm" title="Malachi 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v39_1_1"><span class="reftext" id="Mal.1.1" class="v39_1_1">1</span>This is the message that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> gave Malachi to tell the people of Israel.</span></p><h3 class="s">The <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s Love for Israel</h3><p class="par"><span class="v39_1_2"><span class="reftext" id="Mal.1.2" class="v39_1_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mal.1.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> <a href="#fn" id="link_Mal.1.2!x.2" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The <span class="nd">Lord</span> says to his people, “I have always loved you.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v39_1_2">But they reply, “How have you shown your love for us?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v39_1_2">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> answers, “Esau and Jacob were brothers, but I have loved Jacob and his descendants, </span><span class="v39_1_3"><span class="reftext" id="Mal.1.3" class="v39_1_3">3</span>and have hated Esau and his descendants. I have devastated Esau's hill country and abandoned the land to jackals.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v39_1_4"><span class="reftext" id="Mal.1.4" class="v39_1_4">4</span>If Esau's descendants, the Edomites, say, “Our towns have been destroyed, but we will rebuild them,” then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will reply, “Let them rebuild—I will tear them down again. People will call them ‘The evil country’ and ‘The nation with whom the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is angry forever.’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v39_1_5"><span class="reftext" id="Mal.1.5" class="v39_1_5">5</span>The people of Israel are going to see this with their own eyes, and they will say, “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> is mighty even outside the land of Israel!”</span></p><h3 class="s">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> Reprimands the Priests</h3><p class="par"><span class="v39_1_6"><span class="reftext" id="Mal.1.6" class="v39_1_6">6</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty says to the priests, “Children honor their parents, and servants honor their masters. I am your father—why don't you honor me? I am your master—why don't you respect me? You despise me, and yet you ask, ‘How have we despised you?’ </span><span class="v39_1_7"><span class="reftext" id="Mal.1.7" class="v39_1_7">7</span>This is how—by offering worthless food on my altar. Then you ask, ‘How have we failed to respect you?’ I will tell you—by showing contempt for my altar. </span><span class="v39_1_8"><span class="reftext" id="Mal.1.8" class="v39_1_8">8</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mal.1.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> When you bring a blind or sick or lame animal to sacrifice to me, do you think there's nothing wrong with that? Try giving an animal like that to the governor! Would he be pleased with you or grant you any favors?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v39_1_9"><span class="reftext" id="Mal.1.9" class="v39_1_9">9</span>Now, you priests, try asking God to be good to us. He will not answer your prayer, and it will be your fault. </span><span class="v39_1_10"><span class="reftext" id="Mal.1.10" class="v39_1_10">10</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty says, “I wish one of you would close the Temple doors so as to prevent you from lighting useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you; I will not accept the offerings you bring me. </span><span class="v39_1_11"><span class="reftext" id="Mal.1.11" class="v39_1_11">11</span>People from one end of the world to the other honor me. Everywhere they burn incense to me and offer acceptable sacrifices. All of them honor me! </span><span class="v39_1_12"><span class="reftext" id="Mal.1.12" class="v39_1_12">12</span>But you dishonor me when you say that my altar is worthless and when you offer on it food that you despise. </span><span class="v39_1_13"><span class="reftext" id="Mal.1.13" class="v39_1_13">13</span>You say, ‘How tired we are of all this!’ and you turn up your nose at me. As your offering to me you bring a stolen animal or one that is lame or sick. Do you think I will accept that from you? </span><span class="v39_1_14"><span class="reftext" id="Mal.1.14" class="v39_1_14">14</span>A curse on the cheater who sacrifices a worthless animal to me, when he has in his flock a good animal that he promised to give me! For I am a great king, and people of all nations fear me.”</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). 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