¹以色列忘记主爱

¹The burden of a word of Jehovah unto Israel by the hand of Malachi:

²耶和华说：“我爱你们。”你们却说：“你怎样爱了我们呢？”耶和华说：“以扫不是雅各的哥哥吗？我却爱雅各，

²I have loved you, said Jehovah, And ye have said, `In what hast Thou loved us?`

³恶以扫。我使以扫的山地荒凉，把他的产业给了旷野的豺狼。”

³Is not Esau Jacob`s brother? — an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.

⁴如果以东说：“我们虽然遭破坏，但仍要把废墟重建起来。”万军之耶和华这样说：“他们只管建造，我却要拆毁。人要称他们为罪恶的境地，为耶和华永远恼怒的子民。”

⁴Because Edom saith, `We have been made poor, And we turn back and we build the wastes,` Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They do build, and I do destroy, And [men] have called to them, `O region of wickedness,` `O people whom Jehovah defied to the age.`

⁵你们要亲眼看见，也要亲自说：“耶和华在以色列的境地以外，必被尊为大。”

⁵And your eyes do see, and ye say, `Magnified is Jehovah beyond the border of Israel,

⁶斥责不虔不敬的祭司万军之耶和华对你们说：“藐视我名的祭司啊！儿子尊敬父亲，仆人敬畏主人。我若是父亲，我该受的尊敬在哪里呢？我若是主人，我应得的敬畏在哪里呢？”你们却说：“我们怎样藐视了你的名呢？”

⁶A son honoureth a father, and a servant his master. And if I [am] a father, where [is] Mine honour? And if I [am] a master, where [is] My fear? Said Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests, despising My name! And ye have said: `In what have we despised Thy name?`

⁷“你们把污秽的食物献在我的坛上，你们竟说：‘我们怎样污秽了你的坛呢？’因你们以为耶和华的桌子是可以藐视的。”

⁷Ye are bringing nigh on Mine altar polluted bread, And ye have said: `In what have we polluted Thee?` In your saying: `The table of Jehovah — it [is] despicable,`

⁸万军之耶和华说：“你们把瞎眼的献为祭，这不是恶吗？你们把瘸腿的和有病的献上，这不是罪吗？你把这样的礼物献给你的省长，他会喜欢你或是悦纳你的礼物吗？”

⁸And when ye bring nigh the blind for sacrifice, `There is no evil,` And when ye bring nigh the lame and sick, `There is no evil;` Bring it near, I pray thee, to thy governor — Doth he accept thee? or doth he lift up thy face? Said Jehovah of Hosts.

⁹现在，你们要向　神求情，好使他恩待我们。这污秽的祭物，既是你们经手献的，他还能悦纳你们吗？万军之耶和华说：

⁹And now, appease, I pray thee, the face of God, And He doth favour us; From your own hand hath this been, Doth He accept of you appearances? Said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁰“真愿你们当中有人把殿门关上，免得你们在我的坛上徒然点火。”万军之耶和华说：“我不喜欢你们，也不从你们手中收纳礼物。”

¹⁰Who [is] even among you, And he shutteth the two-leaved doors? Yea, ye do not kindle Mine altar for nought, I have no pleasure in you, said Jehovah of Hosts, And a present I do not accept of your hand.

¹¹万军之耶和华说：“从日出到日落的地方，我的名在列国中为大；在各处都有人向我的名烧香，献上洁净的礼物，因为我的名在列国中为大。”

¹¹For, from the rising of the sun to its going in, Great [is] My name among nations, And in every place perfume is brought nigh to My name, and a pure present, For great [is] My name among nations, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹²万军之耶和华说：“你们却亵渎了我，因你们以为主的桌子是污秽的，桌上的食物也是可藐视的。

¹²And ye are polluting it in your saying, `The table of Jehovah — it is polluted, As to its fruit — despicable is its food.`

¹³你们又说：‘唉，真麻烦！’你们就嗤之以鼻。”耶和华说：“你们把抢来的、瘸腿的和有病的带来作礼物，我怎能从你们的手中收受呢？”

¹³And ye have said, `Lo, what a weariness,` And ye have puffed at it, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have brought in plunder, And the lame and the sick, And ye have brought in the present! Do I accept it from your hand? said Jehovah.

¹⁴万军之耶和华说：“凡以家畜中公的许了愿，却又诡诈地拿有残疾的献给主，那人当受咒诅；因为我是大君王，我的名在列国中是可敬畏的。”

¹⁴And cursed [is] a deceiver, who hath in his drove a male, And is vowing, and is sacrificing a marred thing to the Lord, For a great king [am] I, said Jehovah of Hosts, And My name [is] revered among nations!