Malachi 1:5-7

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁵ Your own eyes will see this, and you yourselves will say, ‘The Lord is great, even beyond^[a] the borders of Israel.’^(A)

Disobedience of the Priests

⁶ “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?^(B) says Yahweh of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name.”

Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name?”

⁷ “By presenting defiled food on My altar.”

You ask: “How have we defiled You?”^(C)

When you say: “The Lord’s table is contemptible.”^(D)