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Your eyes will see this, and you will say, “Yahweh is great beyond the borders[a] of Israel.”

An Oracle Against the Temple Priesthood

“A son honors his father, and a slave his master;[b] but if I am a father, where is my honor, and if I am a master,[c] where is my reverence?” says Yahweh of hosts to you, O priests, who despise[d] my name. “But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ You are presenting defiled food on my altar! But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’ By saying that the table of Yahweh is despised!

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 1:5 Hebrew “boundary”
  2. Malachi 1:6 Hebrew “masters”
  3. Malachi 1:6 Hebrew “masters”
  4. Malachi 1:6 Literally “despisers of”