Malachi 1:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴ If Edom says, ‘We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,’ the Lord of hosts says: They may build, but I will tear down, until they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever. ⁵ Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, ‘Great is the Lord beyond the borders of Israel!’

Corruption of the Priesthood

⁶ A son honours his father, and servants their master. If then I am a father, where is the honour due to me? And if I am a master, where is the respect due to me? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’