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Malachi 1:12 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" “But you profane it when you say, ‘The LORD’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’ "
Malachi 1:12
Verse in Context
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10 “Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
11 For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations,” says the LORD of Armies.
12 “But you profane it when you say, ‘The LORD’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’
13 You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ And you have sniffed at it”, says the LORD of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says the LORD.
14 “But the deceiver is cursed who has in his flock a male, and vows and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says the LORD of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”
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Malachi 1:1
"A revelation, the LORD’s word to Israel by Malachi."
Malachi 1:2
"“I have loved you,” says the LORD. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the LORD, “Yet I loved Jacob;"
Malachi 1:3
"but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”"
Malachi 1:4
"Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places,” the LORD of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom the LORD shows wrath forever.”"
Malachi 1:5
"Your eyes will see, and you will say, “The LORD is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”"
Malachi 1:6
"“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD of Armies to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’"
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