Malachi 1:6

⁵You will see this with your own eyes, and you yourselves will say, ‘The LORD is great—even beyond the borders of Israel.’”

⁶“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

⁷By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You ?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.

• LXX defiled it
• The altar is called the table of the LORD here, in verse 12, and in Ezek 41:22. Throughout the ancient Near East the temple was the god’s house and the altar its table; in Israel’s practice the well-being offering culminated in a meal eaten before the LORD (Exod 24:9-11; Deut 12:7), while the LORD Himself does not eat (Ps 50:12-13)

⁵And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.

⁶A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

⁷Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.