1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. 2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, In what hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, 3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. 4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever. 5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel. 6 A son honoreth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I [am] a father, where [is] my honor? and if I [am] a master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, In what have we despised thy name? 7 Ye offer polluted bread upon my altar? and ye say, In what have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] contemptible. 8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [is it] not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, [is it] not evil? offer it now to thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts. 9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious to us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your person? saith the LORD of hosts. 10 Who [is there] even among you that would shut the doors [for nought] ? neither do ye kindle [fire] on my altar for naught. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. 11 For from the rising of the sun even to the setting of the same, my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense [shall be] offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name [shall be] great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts. 12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit of it, [even] his provision, is contemptible. 13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness [is it] ! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought [that which was] torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this from your hand? saith the LORD. 14 But cursed [be] the deceiver, who hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth to the LORD a corrupt thing: for I [am] a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name [is] dreadful among the heathen.
Malachi · Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
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Malachi
The prophet through whom the word of the LORD came to Israel; the name may mean 'my messenger'.
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- 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)