Malachi 1:10

Integrity Praise and worship

⁸ And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.

⁹ And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.

Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

¹¹ For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.

¹² But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.
KJV: Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
WEB: “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.
ASV: Oh that there were one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle [fire on] mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith Jehovah of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
DARBY: Who is there among you that would even shut the doors? and ye would not kindle [fire] on mine altar for nothing. I have no delight in you, saith Jehovah of hosts, neither will I accept an oblation at your hand.
BLB: “Who even among you⁺ will shut the doors, so that you⁺ could not kindle fire [on] My altar in vain? There is not for Me delight in you⁺,” says YHWH of Hosts, “And an offering I will not accept from your⁺ hand!

ÅB: Gid det fantes noen blant dere som ville lukke tempeldørene, så dere ikke skal gjøre opp ild på mitt alter til ingen nytte! Jeg finner ikke behag i dere, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, og til offergaver fra deres hånd har jeg ingen lyst.
OTB: "Hvis bare en av dere ville lukke tempeldørene, så dere ikke ville tenne ild på mitt alter for ingenting! Jeg er ikke fornøyd med dere," sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, "og jeg vil ikke akseptere et offer fra deres hånd.
B1930: Gid det fantes nogen blandt eder som vilde lukke tempeldørene, så I ikke skal gjøre op ild på mitt alter til ingen nytte! Jeg finner ikke behag i eder, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, og til offergaver fra eders hånd har jeg ingen lyst.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

1 Peter 5:2
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
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Jeremiah 6:20
To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
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Amos 5:21–24
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
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Hosea 5:6
They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
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Micah 3:11
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
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Isaiah 1:11–15
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
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Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
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Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
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