Malachi 1:6-11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Disobedience of the Priests

⁶ ‘A son honours his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honour? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me?^(A) says the Lord of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.’

Yet you ask, ‘How have we despised your name? ’

⁷ ‘By presenting defiled food on my altar.’

‘How have we defiled you? ’ you ask.^(B)

When you say, ‘The Lord’s table is contemptible.’^(C)

⁸ ‘When you present a blind animal for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present a lame or sick animal, is it not wrong?^(D) Bring it to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favour? ’ asks the Lord of Armies. ⁹ ‘And now plead for God’s favour. Will he be gracious to us?^(E) Since this has come from your hands, will he show any of you favour? ’^(F) asks the Lord of Armies. ¹⁰ ‘I wish one of you would shut the temple doors,^(G) so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar!^(H) I am not pleased with you,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and I will accept^(I) no offering from your hands.^(J)

¹¹ ‘My name will be great among the nations,^(K) from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense^[a] and pure offerings will be presented in my name in every place because my name will be great among the nations,’^[b] says the Lord of Armies.