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| [1]The burden of the word of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 to Israel by Malachi. |
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| [2]I have loved you, saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇. Yet ye say: 'Wherein hast Thou loved us?' Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇; yet I loved Jacob; |
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| [3]But Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness. |
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| [4]Whereas Edom saith: 'We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places'; thus saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 of hosts: They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall be called The border of wickedness, and The people whom 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 execrateth for ever. |
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| [5]And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say: '𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 is great beyond the border of Israel.' |
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| [6]A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master; if then I be a father, where is My honour? and if I be a master, where is My fear? saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise My name. And ye say: 'Wherein have we despised Thy name?' |
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| [7]Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar. And ye say: 'Wherein have we polluted thee?' In that ye say: 'The table of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 is contemptible.' |
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| [8]And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it no evil! And when ye offer the lame and sick, is it no evil! Present it now unto the governor; will he be pleased with thee? or will he accept thy person? saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 of hosts. |
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| [9]And now, I pray you, entreat the favour of God that He may be gracious unto us!—this hath been of your doing.—will He accept any of your persons? saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 of hosts. |
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| [10]Oh that there were even one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle fire on Mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. |
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| [11]For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same My name is great among the nations; and in every place offerings are presented unto My name, even pure oblations; for My name is great among the nations, saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 of hosts. |
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| [12]But ye profane it, in that ye say: 'The table of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even the food thereof, is contemptible.' |
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| [13]Ye say also: 'Behold, what a weariness is it!' and ye have snuffed at it, saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 of hosts; and ye have brought that which was taken by violence, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye bring the offering; should I accept this of your hand? saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇. |
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| [14]But cursed be he that dealeth craftily, whereas he hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King, saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 of hosts, and My name is feared among the nations. |
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