Malachi 1:4-6

Lexham English Bible

⁴ If Edom says, “We are shattered, but we will return and rebuild the ruins,” Yahweh of hosts says this: “They may build, but I will tear down; and they will be called a territory of wickedness, and the people with whom Yahweh is angry forever.” ⁵ Your eyes will see this, and you will say, “Yahweh is great beyond the borders^[a] of Israel.”

An Oracle Against the Temple Priesthood

⁶ “A son honors his father, and a slave his master;^[b] but if I am a father, where is my honor, and if I am a master,^[c] where is my reverence?” says Yahweh of hosts to you, O priests, who despise^[d] my name. “But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’