Malachi 1:12
Good News Translation
But you dishonor me when you say that my altar is worthless and when you offer on it food that you despise.

New Revised Standard Version
But you profane it when you say that the Lord’s table is polluted, and the food for it may be despised.

Contemporary English Version
But even you priests insult me by saying, "There's nothing special about the LORD's altar, and these sacrifices are worthless."

New American Bible
But you profane it by saying that the LORD’s table is defiled, and its food may be disdained.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you have profaned it in that you say: The table of the Lord is defiled: and that which is laid thereupon is contemptible with the fire that devoureth it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And you have profaned it in that you say: The table of the Lord is defiled: and that which is laid thereupon is contemptible with the fire that devoureth it.

ye have.

Malachi 1:6,8 The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear: saith the Lord of hosts. . . .

Malachi 2:8 But you have departed out of the way, and have caused many to stumble at the law: you have made void the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

2 Samuel 12:14 Nevertheless, because thou hast given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, for this thing, the child that is born to thee, shall surely die.

Ezekiel 36:21-23 And I have regarded my own holy name, which the house of Israel hath profaned among the nations to which they went in. . . .

Amos 2:7 They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name.

Romans 2:24 (For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.)

The table.

Malachi 1:7,13 To you, O priests, that despise my name, and have said: Wherein have we despised thy name? You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and you say: Wherein have we polluted thee? In that you say: The table of the Lord is contemptible. . . .

Numbers 11:4-8 For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat? . . .

Daniel 5:3,4 Then were the golden and silver vessels brought, which he had brought away out of the temple that was in Jerusalem: and the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. . . .

Context
The Polluted Offerings
11For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts. 12And you have profaned it in that you say: The table of the Lord is defiled: and that which is laid thereupon is contemptible with the fire that devoureth it.13And you have said: Behold of our labour, and you puffed it away, saith the Lord of hosts, and you brought in of rapine the lame, and the sick, and brought in an offering: shall I accept it at your hands, saith the Lord?…
Cross References
Leviticus 18:21
Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God. I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 41:22
The altar of wood was three cubits high: and the length thereof was two cubits: and the corners thereof, aid the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood. And he said to me: This is the table before the Lord.

Ezekiel 44:16
They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and to keep my ceremonies.

Hosea 13:9
Destruction is thy own, O Israel: thy help is only in me.

Malachi 1:7
To you, O priests, that despise my name, and have said: Wherein have we despised thy name? You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and you say: Wherein have we polluted thee? In that you say: The table of the Lord is contemptible.

Malachi 1:11
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