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Malachi 1:12
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“But you are profaning it when you say: ‘The Lord’s table is defiled, and its product, its food, is contemptible.’
But yee haue prophaned it, in that yee say; The table of the Lord is polluted, and the fruite thereof, euen his meate, is contemptible.
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.
But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.
"But you are profaning it by your saying, 'The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is to be despised.'
"But you don't honor me. You say about the Lord's altar, ‘It is unclean, and the food has no worth.'
"But you [priests] profane it when you say, 'The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is to be despised.'
But ye haue polluted it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted & the fruit thereof, euen his meat is not to be regarded.
"But you are profaning it, in that you say, 'The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is to be despised.'
"But you are profaning it, in that you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is to be despised.'
"But you profane it when you say, 'The table of the LORD is defiled, and its fruit, its food, is contemptible.'
But even you priests insult me by saying, "There's nothing special about the Lord 's altar, and these sacrifices are worthless."
"But you profane it by saying that the table of Adonai is polluted, so that the fruit and food offered deserve contempt.
But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted; and the fruit thereof, his food, is contemptible.
"But you people show that you don't respect my name. You say that the Lord's altar is unclean. And you don't like the food from that altar.
But you are profaning it, in that you say, The table of the LORD is polluted and its food is contemptible.
But you dishonor me when you say that my altar is worthless and when you offer on it food that you despise.
"But you are profaning it by saying the table of the Lord is defiled, and its fruit—its food—is despised!
But you are profaning it when you say, The table of the Lord, it is polluted; and its fruit, His food is to be despised.
But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of Jehovah is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even its food, is contemptible.
But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.
"But you profane it, in that you say, 'The LORD's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'
But ye profane it, in that ye say: 'The table of the LORD is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even the food thereof, is contemptible.'
But ye haue polluted it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted, & the fruite thereof, [euen] his meate is not to be regarded.
But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and his meats set thereon are despised.
But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
"But you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'
And ye han defoulid it in that that ye seien, The boord of the Lord is defoulid, and that that is put aboue is `worthi to be dispisid, with fier that deuourith it.
But you profane it, in that you say, The table of Yahweh is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even its food, is contemptible.
But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit of it, [even] his provision, is contemptible.
"But you are profaning it by saying that the table of the Lord is common and its offerings despicable.
"But you profane it,In that you say,'The table of the Lord [fn] is defiled;And its fruit, its food, is contemptible.'
"But you dishonor my name with your actions. By bringing contemptible food, you are saying it's all right to defile the Lord's table.
"But you are making it unclean when you say that the table of the Lord is unclean, and that its food is to be hated.
But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and the food for it may be despised.
But ye are profaning me, - in that ye say, As for the table of the Lord, polluted it is, and, as for his produce, contemptible is his food.
But you profane it when you say that the LORD's table is polluted, and the food for it may be despised.
And ye are polluting it in your saying, `The table of Jehovah -- it is polluted, As to its fruit -- despicable is its food.'
But ye haue vnhalowed it, in that ye saye, the aulter of ye LORDE is not to be regarded, and the thinge that is set thervpon, not worthy to be eaten.
"All except you. Instead of honoring me, you profane me. You profane me when you say, ‘Worship is not important, and what we bring to worship is of no account,' and when you say, ‘I'm bored—this doesn't do anything for me.' You act so superior, sticking your noses in the air—act superior to me, God -of-the-Angel-Armies! And when you do offer something to me, it's a hand-me-down, or broken, or useless. Do you think I'm going to accept it? This is God speaking to you!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
ye have: Malachi 1:6, Malachi 1:8, Malachi 2:8, 2 Samuel 12:14, Ezekiel 36:21-23, Amos 2:7, Romans 2:24
The table: Malachi 1:7, Malachi 1:13, Numbers 11:4-8, Daniel 5:3, Daniel 5:4
Reciprocal: Exodus 25:30 - General Exodus 37:10 - General Leviticus 3:11 - the food Leviticus 18:21 - profane Leviticus 21:6 - profane Leviticus 22:25 - the bread Leviticus 24:9 - Aaron's Numbers 28:2 - my bread 1 Samuel 2:29 - kick ye 2 Samuel 24:24 - Nay 1 Kings 7:48 - the table 1 Chronicles 21:24 - Nay 2 Chronicles 4:8 - ten tables Jeremiah 24:2 - naughty Jeremiah 34:16 - polluted Ezekiel 22:8 - General Ezekiel 40:39 - tables on that Ezekiel 41:22 - This is Ezekiel 44:7 - when Ezekiel 44:16 - to my table Matthew 25:24 - I knew Mark 14:4 - Why Luke 15:29 - yet Philippians 3:19 - whose God
Cross-References
And God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of the waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.
And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, according to their kinds. And it was so done.
And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.
For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear.
For every tree is known by its fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns: nor from a bramble bush do they gather the grape.
And he that ministereth seed to the sower will both give you bread to eat and will multiply your seed and increase the growth of the fruits of your justice:
Be not deceived: God is not mocked.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But ye have profaned it,.... That is, the name of the Lord, which they are said to despise, Malachi 1:6 and pollute, Malachi 1:7 and is a reason why they and their offerings were rejected: and that they profaned the name of the Lord appears by this,
in that ye say, The table of the Lord [is] polluted: the same with "contemptible", Malachi 1:7 as Kimchi observes;
Malachi 1:7- ::
and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat is contemptible; the word for fruit o sometimes is used for speech, the fruit of the lips,
Isaiah 57:19 and taken in this sense here, as it is by some, may be understood either of the word of God, which commanded such and such sacrifices to be offered up upon the altar, and was despised, so Abarbinel: or the word of the priests, who were continually saying that what was offered up on the altar was contemptible, even the food which they ate of; so Jarchi and Kimchi. "Fruit" and "meat" seem to signify one and the same thing, and design the fruit and meat of the altar; either that which belonged to the Lord, the fat and the blood, which were offered to him, and were reckoned contemptible; or that which fell to the share of the priests, which they thought mean and worthless. Cocceius interprets this of Christ the Branch of the Lord, and fruit of the earth, Isaiah 4:2 whose meat it was to do the will of him that sent him, and was despised and rejected by the Jews; and which was the reason of God's casting them off, and taking in the Gentiles.
o ניבו "et verbum ejus", Pagninus, Munster; "sermo ejus, [vel] eorum", Vatablus; so Ben Melech.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And ye have profaned - o (are habitually profaning it), in that ye say It was the daily result of their daily lives and acts. “It is probable that the priests did not use such words, but that by their very deeds, they proclaimed this aloud: as in the, ‘The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.’ For in that he is seen to be a despiser, though he say it not in words, yet, by their very deeds and by the crookedness of their lives, they all but cry out, There is no God. For they who live as though God beheld not, and do all things recklessly and unholily, by their own deeds and works deny God. So they who are not earnest to preserve to the holy altar the reverence becoming to it, by the very things which they do, say,
The table of the Lord is despised - Not the “table of showbread,” since it is so called in reference to the sacrifice offered thereon. Ezekiel had probably so called the altar, which he saw in his vision of the new temple. Ezekiel 44:16. It is what was before called “the altar;” an altar, in regard to the sacrifices offered to God; a “table,” in regard to the food of the sacrifice therefrom received. Both names, “altar” Matthew 5:23; Hebrews 13:10. and “table” 1 Corinthians 10:21. being received in the New Testament, both were received in the early Church. For each represented one side of the great eucharistic action, as it is a Sacrifice and a sacrament. But the title “altar” was the earliest.
It may be here a different profaneness of the priests. They connived at the sin of the people in sacrificing the maimed animals which they brought, and yet, since they had their food from the sacrifices, and such animals are likely to have been neglected and ill-conditioned, they may very probably have complained of the poverty of their lot, and despised the whole service. For the words used, “its produce, the eating thereof is contemptible” belong to their portion, not to what was consumed by fire. With this agrees their cry.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Malachi 1:12. Ye have profaned it — Ye have desecrated God's worship; is it any wonder that God should cast you off, and follow you with his judgments?
