Malachi 1:5

Malachi 1:5 in other translations

Malachi 1:5 in context

1. 3but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
2. 4Whereas 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.”
3. 5Your eyes will see, and you will say, “Yahweh is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”
4. 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?’
5. 7You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is contemptible.’