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Malachi 1 World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)

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WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
1 A revelation, Yahweh’s word to Israel by Malachi.
1 CARGA de la palabra de Jehová contra Israel, por mano de Malaquías.
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;
2 Yo os he amado, dice Jehová: y dijisteis: ¿En qué nos amaste? ¿No era Esaú hermano de Jacob, dice Jehová, y amé á Jacob,
3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
3 Y á Esaú aborrecí, y torné sus montes en asolamiento, y su posesión para los chacales del desierto?
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.”
4 Cuando Edom dijere: Nos hemos empobrecido, mas tornemos á edificar lo arruinado; así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos: Ellos edificarán, y yo destruiré: y les llamarán Provincia de impiedad, y, Pueblo contra quien Jehová se airó para siempre.
5 Your eyes will see, and you will say, “Yahweh is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”
5 Y vuestros ojos lo verán, y diréis: Sea Jehová engrandecido sobre la provincia de Israel.
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?’
6 El hijo honra al padre, y el siervo á su señor: si pues soy yo padre, ¿qué es de mi honra? y si soy señor, ¿qué es de mi temor?, dice Jehová de los ejércitos á vosotros, oh sacerdotes, que menospreciáis mi nombre. Y decís: ¿En qué hemos menospreciado tu nombre?
7 You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is contemptible.’
7 Que ofrecéis sobre mi altar pan inmundo. Y dijisteis: ¿En qué te hemos amancillado? En que decís: La mesa de Jehová es despreciable.
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.
8 Y cuando ofrecéis el [animal] ciego para sacrificar, ¿no es malo? asimismo cuando ofrecéis el cojo ó el enfermo, ¿no es malo? Preséntalo pues á tu príncipe: ¿acaso se agradará de ti, ó le serás acepto? dice Jehová de los ejércitos.
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.
9 Ahora pues, orad á la faz de Dios que tenga piedad de nosotros: esto de vuestra mano vino: ¿le seréis agradables? dice Jehová de los ejércitos.
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.
10 ¿Quién también hay de vosotros que cierre las puertas ó alumbre mi altar de balde? Yo no recibo contentamiento en vosotros, dice Jehová de los ejércitos, ni de vuestra mano me será agradable el presente.
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.
11 Porque desde donde el sol nace hasta donde se pone, es grande mi nombre entre las gentes; y en todo lugar se ofrece á mi nombre perfume, y presente limpio: porque grande es mi nombre entre las gentes, dice Jehová de los ejércitos.
12 “But you profane it when you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’
12 Y vosotros lo habéis profanado cuando decís: Inmunda es la mesa de Jehová; y cuando hablan [que] su alimento es despreciable.
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.
13 Habéis además dicho: ¡Oh qué trabajo! y lo desechasteis, dice Jehová de los ejércitos; y trajisteis lo hurtado, ó cojo, ó enfermo, y presentasteis ofrenda. ¿Seráme acepto eso de vuestra mano? dice Jehová.
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.”
14 Maldito el engañoso, que tiene macho en su rebaño, y promete, y sacrifica lo dañado á Jehová: porque yo soy Gran Rey, dice Jehová de los ejércitos, y mi nombre es formidable entre las gentes.

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    Prophet

    The prophet through whom the word of the LORD came to Israel; the name may mean 'my messenger'.

    Cited in the guide: Malachi 1:1

Cross references (14)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Habakkuk 1:1; Isaiah 13:1; Nahum 1:1; Zechariah 9:1; Zechariah 12:1
  2. 2 Jeremiah 31:3; Isaiah 41:8–9; Deuteronomy 10:15; Romans 9:10–13; Malachi 3:7–8
  3. 3 Obadiah 10; Joel 3:19; Ezekiel 35:3–4; Jeremiah 49:16–18; Ezekiel 36:14–15
  4. 4 Ezekiel 25:14; Ezekiel 35:9; Isaiah 10:15–16; Isaiah 9:9–10; Isaiah 11:14
  5. 5 Luke 10:23–24; Deuteronomy 11:7; Psalm 58:10–11; Ezekiel 38:16; Psalm 35:26–27
  6. 6 Luke 6:46; Isaiah 1:2; John 13:13–17; Exodus 20:12; 1 Peter 2:17–19
  7. 7 Malachi 1:12; 1 Corinthians 11:27–32; 1 Corinthians 10:21; Malachi 1:8; 1 Samuel 2:15–17
  8. 8 Deuteronomy 15:21; Leviticus 22:19–25; Hosea 8:13; Jeremiah 14:10; Malachi 1:13–14
  9. 9 John 9:31; 1 Peter 1:17; Jeremiah 27:18; Exodus 32:11; 2 Chronicles 30:27
  10. 10 1 Peter 5:2; Jeremiah 6:20; Amos 5:21–24; Hosea 5:6; Micah 3:11
  11. 11 Isaiah 45:6; Isaiah 54:5; Hebrews 13:15–16; Matthew 28:19; Zechariah 8:7
  12. 12 Malachi 1:6–8; Malachi 1:13; Numbers 11:4–8; Malachi 2:8; Amos 2:7
  13. 13 Micah 6:3; Mark 14:37–38; Malachi 1:7–8; Leviticus 22:19–23; Isaiah 43:22–23
  14. 14 Acts 5:1–10; Ecclesiastes 5:4–5; 2 Corinthians 8:12; Luke 12:46; Psalm 76:12

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 1:10 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Chapter XVII)

    … 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 …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 1:10 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVIII, Chapters 33–35)

    … 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)

  3. Quotes verse 1:10 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XVIII)

    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)

  4. Quotes verse 1:6 Basil of Caesarea, On the Holy Spirit (Chapters XVII–XVIII)

    "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)

  5. Quotes verse 1:11 John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book IV, Chapters XII–XIII)

    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)