1 以下是耶和华借玛拉基对以色列宣判的话。 2 耶和华说： "我爱你们。"你们却说： "你怎样爱了我们呢？"耶和华说： "以扫不是雅各的哥哥吗？我却爱雅各， 3 恶以扫。我使以扫的山地荒凉， 把他的产业给了旷野的豺狼。" 4 如果以东说： "我们虽然遭破坏， 但仍要把废墟重建起来。"万军之耶和华这样说： "他们只管建造， 我却要拆毁。人要称他们为罪恶的境地， 为耶和华永远恼怒的子民。" 5 你们要亲眼看见， 也要亲自说： "耶和华在以色列的境地以外， 必被尊为大。" 6 万军之耶和华对你们说： "藐视我名的祭司啊！ 儿子尊敬父亲， 仆人敬畏主人。我若是父亲， 我该受的尊敬在哪里呢？我若是主人， 我应得的敬畏在哪里呢？"你们却说： "我们怎样藐视了你的名呢？" 7 "你们把污秽的食物献在我的坛上， 你们竟说： ‘我们怎样污秽了你的坛呢？’因你们以为耶和华的桌子是可以藐视的。" 8 万军之耶和华说： "你们把瞎眼的献为祭， 这不是恶吗？你们把瘸腿的和有病的献上， 这不是罪吗？你把这样的礼物献给你的省长， 他会喜欢你或是悦纳你的礼物吗？" 9 现在， 你们要向 神求情， 好使他恩待我们。这污秽的祭物， 既是你们经手献的， 他还能悦纳你们吗？万军之耶和华说： 10 "真愿你们当中有人把殿门关上， 免得你们在我的坛上徒然点火。"万军之耶和华说： "我不喜欢你们， 也不从你们手中收纳礼物。" 11 万军之耶和华说： "从日出到日落的地方， 我的名在列国中为大； 在各处都有人向我的名烧香， 献上洁净的礼物， 因为我的名在列国中为大。" 12 万军之耶和华说： "你们却亵渎了我， 因你们以为主的桌子是污秽的， 桌上的食物也是可藐视的。 13 你们又说： ‘唉， 真麻烦！ ’你们就嗤之以鼻。"耶和华说： "你们把抢来的、瘸腿的和有病的带来作礼物， 我怎能从你们的手中收受呢？" 14 万军之耶和华说： "凡以家畜中公的许了愿， 却又诡诈地拿有残疾的献给主， 那人当受咒诅； 因为我是大君王， 我的名在列国中是可敬畏的。"

1 The burden of a word of Jehovah unto Israel by the hand of Malachi:2 I have loved you, said Jehovah, And ye have said, `In what hast Thou loved us?`3 Is not Esau Jacob`s brother? -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.4 Because Edom saith, `We have been made poor, And we turn back and we build the wastes,` Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They do build, and I do destroy, And [men] have called to them, `O region of wickedness,` `O people whom Jehovah defied to the age.`5 And your eyes do see, and ye say, `Magnified is Jehovah beyond the border of Israel,6 A son honoureth a father, and a servant his master. And if I [am] a father, where [is] Mine honour? And if I [am] a master, where [is] My fear? Said Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests, despising My name! And ye have said: `In what have we despised Thy name?`7 Ye are bringing nigh on Mine altar polluted bread, And ye have said: `In what have we polluted Thee?` In your saying: `The table of Jehovah -- it [is] despicable,`8 And when ye bring nigh the blind for sacrifice, `There is no evil,` And when ye bring nigh the lame and sick, `There is no evil;` Bring it near, I pray thee, to thy governor -- Doth he accept thee? or doth he lift up thy face? Said Jehovah of Hosts.9 And now, appease, I pray thee, the face of God, And He doth favour us; From your own hand hath this been, Doth He accept of you appearances? Said Jehovah of Hosts.10 Who [is] even among you, And he shutteth the two-leaved doors? Yea, ye do not kindle Mine altar for nought, I have no pleasure in you, said Jehovah of Hosts, And a present I do not accept of your hand.11 For, from the rising of the sun to its going in, Great [is] My name among nations, And in every place perfume is brought nigh to My name, and a pure present, For great [is] My name among nations, Said Jehovah of Hosts.12 And ye are polluting it in your saying, `The table of Jehovah -- it is polluted, As to its fruit -- despicable is its food.`13 And ye have said, `Lo, what a weariness,` And ye have puffed at it, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have brought in plunder, And the lame and the sick, And ye have brought in the present! Do I accept it from your hand? said Jehovah.14 And cursed [is] a deceiver, who hath in his drove a male, And is vowing, and is sacrificing a marred thing to the Lord, For a great king [am] I, said Jehovah of Hosts, And My name [is] revered among nations!