Malachi 1:8

Modern English Version

When you offer the blind as a sacrifice, is it not evil? When you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Offer it now to your governor! Would he be pleased with you, or accept you? says the Lord of Hosts.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:21

If there is any defect in it, if it is lame or blind or has a serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.

Hosea 8:13

For the sacrifices of My offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but the Lord does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.

Jeremiah 14:10

Thus says the Lord to this people: Even so they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet. Therefore, the Lord does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish their sins.

Psalm 20:3

may He remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice.   Selah

Job 42:8

And now, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job will pray for you. For him I will accept, lest I deal with you according to your folly, in that you have not spoken of Me the thing which is right like My servant Job.”

Malachi 1:10

Who is there among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on My altar in vain? I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of Hosts, nor will I accept an offering from your hand.

Haggai 1:1

In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

Malachi 1:7

You offer defiled food on My altar, but say, “How have we defiled You?” By saying, “The table of the Lord is contemptible.”