| 1 | The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi. | Isa 13:1 Hab 1:1 Zc 9:1 Zc 12:1 |
| 2 | I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob`s brother, saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob; | Dt 7:6-8 Dt 10:15 Dt 32:8-14 Isa 41:8 Isa 41:9 Isa 43:4 Jer 31:3 Ro 11:28 Ro 11:29 |
| 3 | but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness. | Gn 29:30 Gn 29:31 Dt 21:15 Dt 21:16 Lk 14:26 |
| 4 | Whereas Edom saith, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever. | Isa 9:9 Isa 9:10 Jm 4:13-16 |
| 5 | And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Jehovah be magnified beyond the border of Israel. | Dt 4:3 Dt 11:7 Jsh 24:7 1Sa 12:16 2Ch 29:8 Lk 10:23 Lk 10:24 |
| 6 | A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? | Ex 20:12 Lv 19:3 Dt 5:16 Pr 30:11 Pr 30:17 Mt 15:4 Mt 15:6 Mt 19:19 Mk 7:10 Mk 10:19 Lk 18:20 Eph 6:2 |
| 7 | Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar. And ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of Jehovah is contemptible. | Lv 2:11 Dt 15:21 |
| 8 | And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, it is no evil! and when ye offer the lame and sick, it is no evil! Present it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee? or will he accept thy person? saith Jehovah of hosts. | Mal 1:14 Lv 22:19-25 Dt 15:21 |
| 9 | And now, I pray you, entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he accept any of your persons? saith Jehovah of hosts. | 2Ch 30:27 Jer 27:18 Jl 1:13 Jl 1:14 Jl 2:17 Zc 3:1-5 Jn 9:31 Heb 7:26 Heb 7:27 |
| 10 | Oh that there were one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle [fire on] mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith Jehovah of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. | Jb 1:9-11 Isa 56:11 Isa 56:12 Jer 6:13 Jer 8:10 Mic 3:11 Jn 10:12 Php 2:21 1Pe 5:2 |
| 11 | For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense [shall be] offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles, saith Jehovah of hosts. | Ps 50:1 Ps 113:3 Isa 45:6 Isa 59:19 Zc 8:7 |
| 12 | But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of Jehovah is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even its food, is contemptible. | Mal 1:6 Mal 1:8 Mal 2:8 2Sa 12:14 Ezk 36:21-23 Am 2:7 Ro 2:24 |
| 13 | Ye say also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith Jehovah of hosts; and ye have brought that which was taken by violence, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye bring the offering: should I accept this at your hand? saith Jehovah. | 1Sa 2:29 Isa 43:22 Am 8:5 Mic 6:3 Mk 14:4 Mk 14:5 Mk 14:37 Mk 14:38 |
| 14 | But cursed be the deceiver, who hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King, saith Jehovah of hosts, and my name is terrible among the Gentiles. | Mal 3:9 Gn 27:12 Jsh 7:11 Jsh 7:12 Jer 48:10 Mt 24:51 Lk 12:1 Lk 12:2 Lk 12:46 Ac 5:1-10 Rev 21:8 |
