CHAP. I.
God reproaches the Jews with their ingratitude: and the
priests for not offering pure sacrifices. He will accept of
the sacrifice that shall be offered in every place among the
Gentiles.
1 The burden of the
word of the Lord to
Israel by the hand
of Malachias.
2 I have loved you, saith
the Lord: and you have
said: Wherein hast thou
loved us? Was not Esau
brother to Jacob, saith the
Lord, and note I have loved
Jacob,
3 But have hated Esau?
and I have made his mountains
a wilderness, and given
-- --
his inheritance to the dragons
of the desart.
4 And if Edom say: We
are destroyed indeed, but we
will return and build up what
hath been destroyed: thus
saith the Lord of hosts:
They shall build up, and I
will throw down: and they
shall be called the borders
of wickedness, and the people
with whom the Lord is
angry for ever.
5 And your eyes shall
see: and you shall say:
The Lord be magnified upon
the border of Israel.
6 The son honoureth the
father, and the servant his
master: if then I be a father,
where is my honour? and if
I be a master, where is my
fear: saith the Lord of hosts?
7 To you, O priests, that
despise my name, and have
said: Wherein have we despised
thy name? You offer
polluted bread upon my altar:
and you say: Wherein
have we polluted thee? In
that you say: The table of
the Lord is contemptible.
8 If you offer the blind
for sacrifice, is it not evil?
and if you offer the lame
and the sick, is it not evil?
offer it to thy prince, if he
will be pleased with it, or
if he will regard thy face,
saith the Lord of hosts.
9 And now beseech ye
the face of God, that he
may have mercy on you
(for by your hand hath this
been done) if by any means
he will receive your faces,
saith the Lord of hosts.
10 Who is there among
you, that will shut the doors,
and will kindle the fire on
my altar for nought? I have
no pleasure in you, saith the
Lord of hosts: and I will
not receive a gift of your
hand.
11 For from the rising
of the sun even to the going
down, my name is great among
the Gentiles, and in
every place there is sacrifice,
and there is offered to my
name note a clean offering:
for my name is great among
the Gentiles, saith the Lord
of hosts.
12 And you have profaned
-- --
it in that you say:
The table of the Lord is defiled:
and that which is laid
thereupon, is contemptible,
with the fire that devoureth it.
13 And you have said:
note Behold of our labour, and
you blowed it away, saith
the Lord of hosts, and you
brought in of rapine the
lame, and the sick, and
brought in an offering: and
shall I accept it at your
hands, saith the Lord?
14 Cursed is the deceitful
man, that hath in his
flock a male, and making a
vow offereth in sacrifice that
which is feeble to the Lord:
for I am a great King, saith
the Lord of hosts, and my
name is dreadful among the
Gentiles.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
