Malachi 1

¹The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.

²I have loved you, saith the Lord.

³And I hated Esau,

⁴Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished,

⁵And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say,

⁶A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master:

⁷Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar;

⁸And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil?

⁹And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us:

¹⁰Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought?

¹¹For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same

¹²But ye have profaned it, in that ye say,

¹³Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it!

¹⁴But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male,