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2 I have loved you indeed, says the Eternal; yet you ask, “How hast thou loved us?” “Thus,” the Eternal answers; “is not Esau the brother of Jacob, and yet I have loved Jacob 3 and I have hated Esau, laying his mountain ranges waste and leaving his heritage to jackals of the desert. 4 Edom may say, ‘We are crushed, but we will rebuild the ruins.’ The Lord of hosts declares: They may build, but I will break, till they are called ‘The Criminal Land,’ a folk with whom the Eternal is for ever furious. 5 Your own eyes shall see that, and you shall cry, ‘All hail to the Eternal, far beyond the borders of Israel!’
6 I the Eternal never change, but you are the sons of Jacob the cheater still; 7 ever since the days of your fathers, you have swerved from my laws and failed to keep them. Come back to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will come back to you. ‘How do we need to come back?’ you ask. 8 Well, can a man cheat God? And yet you are cheating me. ‘How have we cheated thee?’ you ask. By your tithes and offerings. 9 You lie under my curse for cheating me, the whole of your nation, 10 If you would enjoy ample rations in my House, then pay all your tithes into the treasury, and see what I will do, says the Lord of hosts; see if I will not then open the very sluices of heaven to pour a blessing down for you, a harvest more than enough; 11 I will stop the locust from spoiling your crops, and your vines shall not miscarry (the Lord of hosts declares); 12 all nations shall call you happy, the Lord of hosts declares, for you shall be a land of delight.
6 A son should honour his "I father, and a servant should reverence his lord. Now, if I am a father, where is my honour? If I am a Lord, where is my reverence? O priests, you slight me, says the Lord of hosts. ‘How have we slighted thee?’ you ask. 7 By putting defiled food upon my altar. ‘But how have we defiled it?’ By thinking that the table of the Eternal may be despised, 8 bringing a blind brute to be sacrificed and saying, ‘No matter!’--bringing a lame or sickly brute and saying, ‘No matter!’ Just take the beast to your governor and see if he will accept it, see if he will be delighted, says the Lord of hosts! 9 Try to pacify God and win his favour? How can he favour any one of you, says the Lord of hosts, when you offer him such sacrifices? 10 Will no one close the temple-doors, to keep you from kindling useless fires upon my altar? I take no delight in you, the Lord of hosts declares, I will accept no offering that you make; 11 for while my name is being honoured among pagans from sunrise to sunset, and a pure offering burned in honour of my name on every sacred spot (for among pagans my name is being honoured, says the Lord of hosts), 12 you are dishonouring it. For you the table of the Eternal is defiled and its food is no matter; 13 you say, ‘What a weariness it all is!’ and you sniff at it, says the Lord of hosts! You bring blind brutes and lame and sickly--you actually bring that for an offering! Am I to accept that from you? says the Lord of hosts. 14 A curse upon the cheat, who, with a male beast in his flock, vows that, and then slays for the Eternal some blemished animal! I am a great King, the Lord of hosts declares, and among pagans my name is honoured.