Malachi 1:5-7
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
5 Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, ‘Great is the Lord beyond the borders of Israel!’
Corruption of the Priesthood
6 A son honours his father, and servants their master. If then I am a father, where is the honour due to me? And if I am a master, where is the respect due to me? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ 7 By offering polluted food on my altar. And you say, ‘How have we polluted it?’[a] By thinking that the Lord’s table may be despised.
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- Malachi 1:7 Gk: Heb you
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