Portal:Covenant Press

“ Has not our God created us? Why do we deal treacherously, || Each against his brother, || To defile the covenant of our fathers? 11 Judah has dealt treacherously, || And abomination has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem, || For Judah has defiled the holy thing of YHWH that He has loved, || And has married the daughter of a strange god. 12 YHWH cuts off the man who does it, || Tempter and tempted—from the tents of Jacob, || Even he who is bringing a present near to YHWH of Hosts. ”

“ And you have said, || In what do we turn back? 8 Does man deceive God? But you are deceiving Me, || And you have said, || In what have we deceived You? The tithe and the raised-offering! 9 You are cursed with a curse! ”

“ Chapter 1 1 The burden of a word of YHWH to Israel by the hand of Malachi: 2 "I have loved you, said YHWH, || And you have said, || In what have You loved us? 3 Is not Esau Jacob's brother?" A declaration of YHWH, || "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 Because Edom says, We have been made poor, || And we return and we build the ruins, || Thus said YHWH of Hosts: They build, and I destroy, || And [men] have called to them, || O region of wickedness, || O people whom YHWH defied for all time. ”