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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Malachi 1 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/malachi/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">God’s First Complaint: Against His People—A Despised Love</p><p class="reg marginbot"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>A declaration: a message from the LORD to Israel by Malachi.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:1 The Heb. name Malachi means My messenger">a</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“I’ve loved you,” says the LORD. “But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’</p> <p class="reg">“Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD, “yet I loved Jacob, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>rejected<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:3 Lit. hated">b</a></span> Esau, turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:3 The Heb. lacks gave">c</a></span> his inheritance to desert jackals. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Even though Edom may claim, ‘We were crushed, but we will return and rebuild the ruins,’ this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: “They may rebuild, but I’ll demolish. People<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:4 Lit. they">d</a></span> will call them, ‘The Wicked Land,’ and, ‘The People With Whom the LORD is Forever Angry.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Your own eyes will see this, and you will say, ‘Great is the LORD even beyond the borders of Israel!’”</p> <p class="heading">God’s Second Complaint: Against His Priests—A Despised Offering</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“A son honors his father and a servant his master. So if I’m a father, where is my honor? And if I’m a master, where is my respect?” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies to you priests who are despising my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised your name?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>By presenting defiled food on my altar. And you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’ By saying, ‘The Table of the LORD is contemptible.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you sacrifice crippled or diseased animals,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:8 The Heb. lacks animals">e</a></span> is that not wrong? Offer that to your governor—would he be pleased with you or receive you favorably?” asks the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“And now, go ahead and implore God by saying, ‘Be gracious to us.’ Will he receive you favorably and accept offerings like that from your hand?” asks the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.</p> <p class="heading">Useless Offerings and Useless Altar Fires</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Oh, that one of you would shut the Temple<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:10 The Heb. lacks temple">f</a></span> doors and not light useless fires on the altar! I’m not pleased with you,” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, “and I’ll accept no offerings from you.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:10 Lit. from your hands">g</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Even so, from where the sun rises to where it sets my name will be great among the Gentiles. Incense will be brought to me<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:11 Lit. to my name">h</a></span> everywhere, along with pure offerings, because my name will be great among the Gentiles,” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“But you are profaning my name<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:12 Lit. it">i</a></span> by saying that the Table of the LORD is defiled and that its fruit and its food are contemptible.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“And you say, ‘What a burden!’ and sniff contemptuously at it,” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, “when you present maimed, crippled, and diseased animals,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:13 The Heb. lacks animals">j</a></span> and when you bring the offering. Should I accept this from your hand?” asks the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:14 The Heb. lacks acceptable">k</a></span> male in his flock, and vows to give it,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:14 The Heb. lacks to give it">l</a></span> but sacrifices a mutilated one to the LORD. Indeed, I am a great king,” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, “and my name is feared among the Gentiles.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 1:1 The Heb. name <i>Malachi</i> means <i>My messenger</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 1:3 Lit. <i>hated</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 1:3 The Heb. lacks <i>gave</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 1:4 Lit. <i>they</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 1:8 The Heb. lacks <i>animals</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 1:10 The Heb. lacks <i>temple</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 1:10 Lit. <i>from your hands</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 1:11 Lit. <i>to my name</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 1:12 Lit. <i>it</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 1:13 The Heb. lacks <i>animals</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 1:14 The Heb. lacks <i>acceptable</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 1:14 The Heb. lacks <i>to give it</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../zechariah/14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Zechariah 14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Zechariah 14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../malachi/2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Malachi 2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Malachi 2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/malachi/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>