Malachi 1:12
But you profane it by saying, 'The LORD's table is defiled, and its food is contemptible.'
Additional Resources
Other Translations
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
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.
KJV1611 – Modern English
But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the LORD is defiled; and its produce, even its food, is contemptible.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
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.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
But ye profane{H2490} it, in that ye say,{H559} The table{H7979} of Jehovah{H3068} is polluted,{H1351} and the fruit{H5108} thereof, even its food,{H400} is contemptible.{H959}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
But ye have profaned{H2490}{(H8764)} it, in that ye say{H559}{(H8800)}, The table{H7979} of the LORD{H3068} is polluted{H1351}{(H8794)}; and the fruit{H5108} thereof, even his meat{H400}, is contemptible{H959}{(H8737)}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
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.
Geneva Bible (1560)
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.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
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.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
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.
Webster's Bible (1833)
"But you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
And ye are polluting it in your saying, `The table of Jehovah -- it is polluted, As to its fruit -- despicable is its food.'
American Standard Version (1901)
But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of Jehovah is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even its food, is contemptible.
American Standard Version (1901)
But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of Jehovah is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even its food, is contemptible.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.
World English Bible (2000)
"But you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
“But you are profaning it by saying that the table of the Lord is common and its offerings despicable.
Referenced Verses
- Num 11:4-8 : 4 The rabble among them began to crave other food, and the Israelites also started to weep again, saying, 'Who will give us meat to eat? 5 We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. 6 But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to see but this manna! 7 The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium. 8 The people went around gathering it, ground it in handmills or crushed it in mortars, cooked it in pots, and made it into cakes. It tasted like a cake baked with the richness of oil.
- 2 Sam 12:14 : 14 However, because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will surely die.'
- Ezek 36:21-23 : 21 But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they had gone. 22 Therefore, say to the house of Israel: 'This is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I am about to act, house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone. 23 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have defiled among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when I prove myself holy through you in their sight.
- Dan 5:3-4 : 3 So the gold vessels taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem were brought in, and the king, his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. 4 They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
- Amos 2:7 : 7 'They trample on the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor and obstruct the way of the afflicted. A man and his father go to the same girl, so that they profane My holy name.'
- Mal 1:6-8 : 6 A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. If I am a father, where is the honor I deserve? If I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise my name. But you ask, 'How have we despised your name?' 7 By presenting defiled food on my altar. But you ask, 'How have we defiled you?' By saying, 'The LORD's table is contemptible.' 8 When you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you offer lame or sick animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you? says the LORD of Hosts.
- Mal 1:13 : 13 You say, 'What a burden!' and you sniff at it with contempt, says the LORD of Hosts. When you bring stolen, lame, or sick animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them from your hands? says the LORD.
- Mal 2:8 : 8 But you have turned aside from the way, and by your teaching have caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant with Levi, says the Lord of Hosts.
- Rom 2:24 : 24 For as it is written, 'The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.'
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- Mal 1:6-83 verses90%
6 A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. If I am a father, where is the honor I deserve? If I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise my name. But you ask, 'How have we despised your name?'
7 By presenting defiled food on my altar. But you ask, 'How have we defiled you?' By saying, 'The LORD's table is contemptible.'
8 When you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you offer lame or sick animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you? says the LORD of Hosts.
- Mal 1:13-142 verses82%
13 You say, 'What a burden!' and you sniff at it with contempt, says the LORD of Hosts. When you bring stolen, lame, or sick animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them from your hands? says the LORD.
14 Cursed is the deceiver who has a male animal in his flock and vows to give it, but instead sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great King, says the LORD of Hosts, and my name is to be feared among the nations.
- 78%
8 You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths.
- Jer 2:7-82 verses77%
7 I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its bounty. But you came and defiled my land. You made my inheritance detestable.
8 The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds rebelled against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed worthless things.
- Ezek 44:7-82 verses76%
7 When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in My sanctuary and profane it—My house—by offering My food, the fat, and the blood, you broke My covenant with all your abominations.
8 You did not keep charge of My holy things, but appointed others to be in charge of My sanctuary for you.
- 76%
26 Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common or teach the difference between the unclean and the clean. They shut their eyes to my Sabbaths, and so I am profaned among them.
- Mal 2:8-92 verses75%
8 But you have turned aside from the way, and by your teaching have caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant with Levi, says the Lord of Hosts.
9 So I have also made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways but have shown partiality in matters of the law.
- 74%
8 All the tables are full of vomit and filth; there is no clean place left.
- 74%
30 For the people of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my name to defile it.
- Mal 2:12-132 verses74%
12 The Lord will cut off from the tents of Jacob anyone who does this—any one who is alert and responsive—but still presents an offering to the Lord of Hosts.
13 And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the Lord with tears, weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offering or accepts it with favor from your hands.
- Lam 2:6-72 verses73%
6 He has violently done away with his dwelling, as if it were a garden, destroying his appointed meeting place. The LORD has caused Zion to forget its appointed times and Sabbaths. In his fierce anger, he has despised king and priest alike.
7 The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. He has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They raised their voices in the house of the LORD as on a day of appointed festival.
- Isa 1:12-132 verses73%
12 When you come to appear before Me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of My courts?
13 Do not bring any more meaningless offerings; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies—I cannot endure iniquity combined with solemn assembly.
- Ezek 4:13-142 verses73%
13 The Lord said, 'In this way the people of Israel will eat their defiled bread among the nations where I will drive them.'
14 Then I said, 'Ah, Lord God, I have never been defiled! From my youth until now, I have never eaten anything that died naturally or was torn by animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.'
- 73%
11 For both prophet and priest have become corrupt. Even in My house I have found their wickedness, declares the LORD.
- 73%
38 They have also done this to me: On the same day they defiled my sanctuary and desecrated my Sabbaths.
- 73%
17 You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you ask, 'How have we wearied Him?' By saying, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and He delights in them,' or 'Where is the God of justice?'
- Mal 1:10-112 verses73%
10 Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors so you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you, says the LORD of Hosts, and I will not accept any offerings from your hands.
11 For from the rising of the sun to its setting, my name will be great among the nations. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be brought to my name, because my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of Hosts.
- 73%
3 Behold, I will rebuke your descendants and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your feasts, and it will be carried away with you.
- 73%
15 The priests must not allow the sacred offerings of the people of Israel, which they present to the LORD, to be defiled.
- 73%
34 They set up detestable idols in the house that bears My name and defiled it.
- 72%
19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not live.
- 72%
25 You must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner to offer as the food of your God. They are deformed and have defects; they will not be accepted on your behalf.
- Mal 3:13-142 verses72%
13 Your words against me have been harsh, says the Lord. But you ask, 'What have we spoken against you?
14 You have said, 'Serving God is futile. What profit is there in keeping his requirements or walking mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?
- 72%
29 Why do you scorn My sacrifice and offering that I commanded for My dwelling? Why do you honor your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves on the best of all the offerings of My people Israel?
- 72%
8 Whoever eats it will bear the consequences of their sin, because they have treated what is sacred to the LORD with contempt. That person must be cut off from their people.
- 72%
22 Then you will defile your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, 'Away with you!'
- 72%
14 Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations. They defiled the house of the LORD, which He had sanctified in Jerusalem.
- 72%
10 and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my name, and say, ‘We are safe,’ only to go on doing all these detestable things?
- 71%
21 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!
- 71%
14 Then Haggai responded and said, 'So it is with this people, and so it is with this nation before me—this is the declaration of the LORD. So is every work of their hands, and whatever they offer there is defiled.'
- 71%
9 Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the descendants of Aaron, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of what are not gods.
- 71%
16 But then you turned back and profaned my name. You took back the servants and maidservants whom you had set free, allowing them to go wherever they desired, and you brought them back into subjection to become your slaves again.
- 71%
4 Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men; her priests have profaned the sanctuary and have done violence to the law.
- 71%
30 Therefore, say to the house of Israel: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did and lust after their detestable things?'
- 71%
19 Must My flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?
- 71%
13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister to my God, for grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
- 71%
7 'They trample on the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor and obstruct the way of the afflicted. A man and his father go to the same girl, so that they profane My holy name.'
- 70%
9 Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests, the ministers of the Lord, mourn.