Malachi 1:8-14

New International Version

⁸ When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals,^(A) is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased^(B) with you? Would he accept you?” says the Lord Almighty.^(C)

⁹ “Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings^(D) from your hands, will he accept^(E) you?”—says the Lord Almighty.

¹⁰ “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors,^(F) so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased^(G) with you,” says the Lord Almighty, “and I will accept^(H) no offering^(I) from your hands. ¹¹ My name will be great^(J) among the nations,^(K) from where the sun rises to where it sets.^(L) In every place incense^(M) and pure offerings^(N) will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord Almighty.

¹² “But you profane it by saying, ‘The Lord’s table^(O) is defiled,’ and, ‘Its food^(P) is contemptible.’ ¹³ And you say, ‘What a burden!’^(Q) and you sniff at it contemptuously,^(R)” says the Lord Almighty.

“When you bring injured, lame or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifices,^(S) should I accept them from your hands?”^(T) says the Lord. ¹⁴ “Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal^(U) to the Lord. For I am a great king,^(V)” says the Lord Almighty,^(W) “and my name is to be feared^(X) among the nations.^(Y)