⁶“A son honors his father, and a slave his master;^g but if I am a father, where is my honor, and if I am a master,^h where is my reverence?” says Yahweh of hosts to you, O priests, who despiseⁱ my name. “But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ ⁷You are presenting defiled food on my altar! But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’ By saying that the table of Yahweh is despised! ⁸When you offer a blind animal for sacrifice, is that not wrong?^j And when you offer the lame and the one who is ill, is that not wrong?^k Present it, please, to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Will he show you favor?”^l says Yahweh of hosts. ⁹So then, implore the favor of God^m so that he will be gracious to us. “This is what you have done.ⁿ Will he show favor to any of you?”^o says Yahweh of hosts. ¹⁰“Who also among you will shut the temple doors so that you will not kindle fire in vain on my altar? I take no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of hosts, “and I will not accept^p an offering from your hand. ¹¹From the rising of the sun to its setting, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is being presented to my name, and a pure offering. For my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of hosts.

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Footnotes

gHebrew “masters”
hHebrew “masters”
iLiterally “despisers of”
jOr “is there no wrong?”
kOr “is there no wrong?”
lLiterally “Will he lift your face?”
mLiterally “appease, please, the face of God”
nLiterally “From your hand was this”
oLiterally “will he lift up from you a face”
pLiterally “I will not take pleasure in”