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When Edom says, “We have been crushed,
    but we will rebuild the ruins,”
thus says the Lord of hosts:
    They may build, but I will demolish.
They will be called a country of wickedness,
    the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.
Your own eyes will see this, and you will say,
    “Great is the Lord,
    even beyond the borders of Israel.”

The Blemished Offerings and Other Faults of Priests[a]

A son honors his father,
    and a servant fears his master.
If then I am a father,
    where is the honor due to me?
So says the Lord of hosts
    to you priests who despise my name.
You ask, “How have we despised your name?”

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 1:6 This passage foretells a different and perfect sacrifice, which Christians identify with the Eucharistic sacrifice.