In Context

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 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.|

4 Whereas Edom says, |We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;| thus says Yahweh of Armies, |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 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 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 You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, 'How have we polluted you?' In that you say, 'Yahweh's table contemptible.'

Malachi 1:5 in Other Translations