Malachi · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Malachi 1 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of his messenger. Lay [it], I pray you, to heart.
1 A revelation, Yahweh’s word to Israel by Malachi.
2 I have loved you, saith the Lord. And ye said, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,
2 “I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;
3 and hated Esau, and laid waste his borders, and made his heritage as dwellings of the wilderness?
3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
4 Because one will say, Edom has been overthrown, but let us return and rebuild the desolate places; thus saith the Lord Almighty, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall be called The borders of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord has set himself forever.
4 Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places,” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”
5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The Lord has been magnified upon the borders of Israel.
5 Your eyes will see, and you will say, “Yahweh is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”
6 A son honors [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord Almighty. Ye the priests are they that despise my name: yet ye said, Wherein have we despised thy name?
6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says Yahweh of Armies to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
7 In that ye bring to mine altar polluted bread; and ye said, Wherein have ye polluted it? In that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and that which was set thereon ye have despised.
7 You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is contemptible.’
8 For if ye bring a blind [victim] for sacrifices, [is it] not evil? and if ye bring the lame or the sick, [is it] not evil? offer it now to thy ruler, [and see] if he will receive thee, if he will accept thy person, saith the Lord Almighty.
8 When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?” says Yahweh of Armies.
9 And now entreat the face of your God, and make supplication to him. These things have been done by your hands; shall I accept you? saith the Lord Almighty.
9 “Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says Yahweh of Armies.
10 Because even among you the doors shall be shut, and [one] will not kindle [the fire of] mine altar for nothing, I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will not accept a sacrifice at your hands.
10 “Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
11 For from the rising of the sun even to the going down [thereof] my name has been glorified among the Gentiles; and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord Almighty.
11 For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
12 But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and his meats set thereon are despised.
12 “But you profane it when you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’
13 And ye said, These [services] are troublesome: therefore I have utterly rejected them with scorn, saith the Lord Almighty: and ye brought in torn victims, and lame, and sick: if then ye should bring an offering, shall I accept them at your hands? saith the Lord Almighty.
13 You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ And you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.
14 And cursed [is the man] who had the power, and possessed a male in his flock, and whose vow is upon him, and who sacrifices a corrupt thing to the Lord: for I am a great King, saith the Lord Almighty, and my name is glorious among the nations.
14 “But the deceiver is cursed who has in his flock a male, and vows and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”
Cross references (14)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Habakkuk 1:1; Isaiah 13:1; Nahum 1:1; Zechariah 9:1; Zechariah 12:1
- 2 Jeremiah 31:3; Isaiah 41:8–9; Deuteronomy 10:15; Romans 9:10–13; Malachi 3:7–8
- 3 Obadiah 10; Joel 3:19; Ezekiel 35:3–4; Jeremiah 49:16–18; Ezekiel 36:14–15
- 4 Ezekiel 25:14; Ezekiel 35:9; Isaiah 10:15–16; Isaiah 9:9–10; Isaiah 11:14
- 5 Luke 10:23–24; Deuteronomy 11:7; Psalm 58:10–11; Ezekiel 38:16; Psalm 35:26–27
- 6 Luke 6:46; Isaiah 1:2; John 13:13–17; Exodus 20:12; 1 Peter 2:17–19
- 7 Malachi 1:12; 1 Corinthians 11:27–32; 1 Corinthians 10:21; Malachi 1:8; 1 Samuel 2:15–17
- 8 Deuteronomy 15:21; Leviticus 22:19–25; Hosea 8:13; Jeremiah 14:10; Malachi 1:13–14
- 9 John 9:31; 1 Peter 1:17; Jeremiah 27:18; Exodus 32:11; 2 Chronicles 30:27
- 10 1 Peter 5:2; Jeremiah 6:20; Amos 5:21–24; Hosea 5:6; Micah 3:11
- 11 Isaiah 45:6; Isaiah 54:5; Hebrews 13:15–16; Matthew 28:19; Zechariah 8:7
- 12 Malachi 1:6–8; Malachi 1:13; Numbers 11:4–8; Malachi 2:8; Amos 2:7
- 13 Micah 6:3; Mark 14:37–38; Malachi 1:7–8; Leviticus 22:19–23; Isaiah 43:22–23
- 14 Acts 5:1–10; Ecclesiastes 5:4–5; 2 Corinthians 8:12; Luke 12:46; Psalm 76:12
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… the rising of the sun, unto the going down [of the same], My name is glorified among the Gentiles, and in every place incense is offered to My name, and a pure sacrifice; for great is My name among the Gentiles, saith the Lord Omnipotent;" --indicating in the plainest manner, by these words, that the former people [the Jews] shall …
… even to the going down of the sun, my name is great among the nations; and in every place sacrifice shall be made, and a pure oblation shall be offered unto my name: for my name shall be great among the nations, saith the Lord." Since we can already see this sacrifice offered to God in every place, from the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Agreeably to which the prophet also said to the Jews, I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord Almighty; and immediately afterwards, For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, My name is glorified among the Gentiles.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
"A son," it is said, "honoureth his father, and a servant his master." Of these two the one, the servile, is given by the creature; the other, which may be called the intimate, is fulfilled by the Spirit.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
This surely is that pure and bloodless sacrifice which the Lord through the prophet said is offered to Him from the rising to the setting of the sun.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)