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Malachi 1:6

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4 Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.

5 You will see this with your own eyes, and you yourselves will say, ‘The LORD is great—even beyond the borders of Israel.’”

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

7 By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You ?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.

8 When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.

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BSB
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
KJV
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
WEB
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD of Armies to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
ASV
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?
DARBY
A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, priests, that despise my name. But ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
BLB
“A son honors [his] father, and a servant his master. And if I [am] the Father, where is My honor? And if I [am] the Master, where [is] the fear due Me?” Says YHWH of Hosts to you⁺, O priests despising My name. “And you⁺ say, ‘In what have we despised Your name?’
ÅB
En sønn ærer sin far, og en tjener sin herre; er nå jeg far, hvor er da min ære, og er jeg herre, hvor er da frykten for meg? sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, til dere, dere prester som forakter mitt navn. Og dere sier: Hvormed har vi vist forakt for ditt navn?
OTB
"En sønn ærer sin far, og en tjener sin herre. Hvis jeg er en far, hvor er min ære? Og hvis jeg er en herre, hvor er min respekt?" sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, til dere, prestene som forakter mitt navn. Men dere spør, "Hvordan har vi foraktet ditt navn?"
B1930
En sønn ærer sin far, og en tjener sin herre; er nu jeg far, hvor er da min ære, og er jeg herre, hvor er da frykten for mig? sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, til eder, I prester som forakter mitt navn. Og I sier: Hvormed har vi vist forakt for ditt navn?

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