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Useless Offerings and Useless Altar Fires

10 “Oh, that one of you would shut the Temple[a] doors and not light useless fires on the altar! I’m not pleased with you,” says the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, “and I’ll accept no offerings from you.[b] 11 Even so, from where the sun rises to where it sets my name will be great among the Gentiles. Incense will be brought to me[c] everywhere, along with pure offerings, because my name will be great among the Gentiles,” says the Lord of the Heavenly Armies. 12 “But you are profaning my name[d] by saying that the Table of the Lord is defiled and that its fruit and its food are contemptible.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 1:10 The Heb. lacks temple
  2. Malachi 1:10 Lit. from your hands
  3. Malachi 1:11 Lit. to my name
  4. Malachi 1:12 Lit. it

10 “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors,(A) so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased(B) with you,” says the Lord Almighty, “and I will accept(C) no offering(D) from your hands. 11 My name will be great(E) among the nations,(F) from where the sun rises to where it sets.(G) In every place incense(H) and pure offerings(I) 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(J) is defiled,’ and, ‘Its food(K) is contemptible.’

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