Malachi 1:4-6

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁴ Though Edom says: “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild^[a] the ruins,” the Lord of Hosts says this: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country^(A) and the people the Lord has cursed^[b] forever.^{(B) 5} Your own eyes will see this, and you yourselves will say, ‘The Lord is great, even beyond^[c] the borders of Israel.’^(C)

Disobedience of the Priests

⁶ “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?^(D) says Yahweh of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name.”

Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name?”