Despicable Sacrifices

⁶ “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. So if I am Father, where is My honor? If I am Master, where is My reverence?”—says Adonai-Tzva’ot—“you, kohanim who despise My Name!”

But you say, “How did we despise Your Name?”

⁷ “By offering defiled bread on My altar.” But you say, “How did we defile You?” When you say, “The table of Adonai is despicable.”

¹⁷ You wearied Adonai with your words.

Yet you say: “How did we weary Him?”

When you say: “Everyone doing evil is good in the sight of Adonai, and He delights in them.” Or, “Where is the God of justice?”

Bring the Whole Tithe

⁷ “From the days of your ancestors you have turned aside from My statutes, and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Yet you say: “How should we return?”

⁸ “Will a man rob^[a] God? For you are robbing Me!”

But you say: “How have we robbed You?”

“In the tithe and the offering. ⁹ You have been cursed with the curse, yet you keep robbing Me—the whole nation!