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Chapter 1  
     
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 The burden of the word of the Lord in vision to Israel by Malachi.
  
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 I have loved you, said the Lord in dream which I have interpreted. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? said the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,
  
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 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
  
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 Whereas Edom said, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus said the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord has indignation for ever.
  
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 And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, The Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel.
  
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 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? said the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
  
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 You offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and you say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that you say, The table of the Lord is contemptible.
  
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 And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? said the Lord of hosts.
  
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 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this has been by your means: will he regard your persons? said the Lord of hosts.
  
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 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nothing? neither do you kindle fire on mine altar for nothing. I have no pleasure in you, said the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
  
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 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, said the Lord of hosts.  
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 But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the Lord is polluted; and the fruit of it, even his meat, is contemptible.
  
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 You said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and you have snuffed at it, said the Lord of hosts; and you brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus you brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? said the Lord in dream.
  
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 But cursed be the deceiver, which has in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, said the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
  

 
 
 

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