1Or, oracle
2Or, my messenger. [Not necessarily his name.]
1: 2 I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? 3Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob;
3Or, Is not Esau ... yet I have loved Jacob;
1: 3 but Esau I 4hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
4Soncino commentary suggests, loved less, (Ge 29:31; Dt 21:15).
1: 4 5Whereas Edom saith, We are 6beaten 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 forever.
5Or, Though Edom say,
6Or, as otherwise read, impoverished,
1: 5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Jehovah 7be magnified 8beyond the border of Israel.
7Or, is great
8Or, over
1: 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?
1: 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.
1: 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.
1: 9 And now, I pray you, entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious unto us: this hath been 9by your means: will he 10accept any of your persons? saith Jehovah of hosts.
9Hb. from your hand:
10Or, accept any because of you? saith Jehovah
1: 10 Oh that there were one among you that would shut the double gates, 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.
1: 11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name 11shall be great among the Gentiles: and in every place 12incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the Gentiles, saith Jehovah of hosts.
11Or, is (three times).
12Or, incense and a pure oblation are offered:
1: 12 But ye profane 13me, in that ye say, The table of Jehovah is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even its food, is contemptible.
13Sopherim changed to it,
1: 13 Ye say also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at 14me, 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.
14So several mss. and Jewish tradition. Sopherim changed to it,
1: 14 But cursed be the deceiver, who hath in his flock a male, and 15voweth, and sacrificeth unto 16Jehovah a blemished thing; for I am a great King, saith Jehovah of hosts, and my name is awesome among the Gentiles.
15So the versions. Massoretic reads a faulty female,
16Sopherim changed to the Lord
