⁴ Even though Edom may claim, ‘We were crushed, but we will return and rebuild the ruins,’ this is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says: “They may rebuild, but I’ll demolish. People^[a] will call them, ‘The Wicked Land,’ and, ‘The People With Whom the Lord is Forever Angry.’ ⁵ Your own eyes will see this, and you will say, ‘Great is the Lord even beyond the borders of Israel!’”

God’s Second Complaint: Against His Priests—A Despised Offering

⁶ “A son honors his father and a servant his master. So if I’m a father, where is my honor? And if I’m a master, where is my respect?” says the Lord of the Heavenly Armies to you priests who are despising my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised your name?’