So, remember when I posted my translation of Jonah? Well I've since done Malachi also. Here are the first two chapters. Your Bible may have four chapters, but it is more properly and more traditionally divided into only three. Also, it is highly unlikely that it was composed all at once or by any less than three authors. The syntax and varying tense structure and subject matter are giveaways of multiple authors. This is commonplace in many prophetic books in the Old Testament. Many times they should be read more as prophetic traditions rather than the prophetic utterances of a single prophet. The best example of this is Isaiah where you have either two or three authors, depending on how you read it, that cover a span of time over two hundred years.

At any rate, that's just a bit about OT prophets, writings, and study. Here's the translation. It's messy. That's Hebrew.

The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of Malachi: “I have loved you,” says the Lord. “And you say, ‘How have you loved us?’ Was not Esau the brother of Jacob?” asks the Lord, “And I loved Jacob. “And I hated Esau and I laid his mountains to desolation and his inheritance I have given to the jackals of the wilderness.” Thus Edom said, “We are beaten, but we will return and build the waste places.” Thus says the Lord of Hosts, “They will build and I will tear down. They will call them the border of wickedness, and against those people the Lord is angry forever.” And your eyes will see and you will say, “The Lord will be made great beyond the border of Israel.” “A son honors a father and a servant his master. And if I am a father where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear?” says the Lord of Hosts to you, priests who hate my name. And you say, “How have we hated your name?” “You offer polluted bread on my altar and you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By thinking that the table of the Lord is contemptible.” “And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it evil? And if you offer the lame and the sick, is it evil? Now offer it to your governor. Will he be pleased with you or accept you?” says the Lord of Hosts. And now I beg you, ask God that he will be gracious to us. “With this gift in your hands will he regard you,” says the Lord of Hosts. “Who also among you would shut the doors that you will not light fire on my altar for nothing. I have no pleasure in you,” says the Lord of Hosts. “And I will not accept an offering from your hands.” “For from the rising of the sun to its going down, great is my name in the nations. And in every place incense is burnt to my name and a pure offering. Thus great is my name in the nations,” says the Lord of Hosts. And you have profaned it when you say the table of the Lord is polluted, and its fruit, its meat, is despised. And you say, “Behold, what a weariness it is.” “And you sniffed at it,” says the Lord of Hosts. “And you brought what was torn, and the lame, and the sick, and you brought an offering. Should I accept this from your hands?” says the Lord of Hosts. And the deceiver is cursed who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and sacrifices a corrupt thing to the Lord. “For I am a great king,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and my name is feared in the nations.” And now to you, this commandment, priests: “If you will not hear, and if you will not lay to heart, give glory to my name,” says the Lord of Hosts, “I will send a curse to you, and I will curse your blessings, and I have cursed, because you do not lay it to heart. “Behold, I will rebuke your seed and I will spread the dung on your faces, the dung from your solemn festivals, and you will be taken up with it. And you will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant will be with Levi,” says the Lord of Hosts. “My covenant was with him of the life and of the peace, and I gave them to him for the fear, and he feared me, and in front of my name he was afraid. “The law of truth was in his mouth and iniquity was not found in his lips. In peace and righteousness he walked with me, and he turned away a great many from transgression. “For the lips of the priest should guard knowledge and they should seek the law from his mouth because this is a messenger of the Lord of Hosts. “But you have left from the way, and you have caused a great many to stumble from the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says the Lord of Hosts. “So I have made you despised and low in front of all the people, that you have not kept my ways, but you have been partial in the law.” Do we not have one father? Did not one God create us? Why do we deal treacherously against our brothers profaning the covenant of our fathers? Judah dealt faithlessly, and an abomination is done in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. God will cut off from that man that does so, he who watches or witnesses, or brings and offering to the Lord of Hosts. And this you will also do: you cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out because he will not regard the offering any more, or receive it with good will at your hand. And you say, “Why?” It is because the Lord has witnessed between you and the wife of your youth to whom you have dealt faithlessly, but she is your companion and the wife of your covenant. And did he not make one who had another spirit? And what does the one seek? A seed of God. And look to yourself and do not let one deal faithlessly with the wife of your youth. For he hates sending away, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and letting violence cover his garment, says the Lord of Hosts. So take heed and do not deal faithlessly. You have wearied the Lord with your words. And you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “All who do evil in the sight of the Lord are good,” or, “Where is the God of judgment?”