Malachi 1:10-12

New International Reader's Version

¹⁰ “You might as well shut the temple doors! Then you would not light useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord. “I will not accept any of the offerings you bring. ¹¹ My name will be great among the nations. They will worship me from where the sun rises in the east to where it sets in the west. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be brought to me. That’s because my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord.

¹² “But you treat my name as if it were not holy. You say the Lord’s altar is ‘unclean.’ And you look down on its food.