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Malachi 1:5-7
New Catholic Bible
Malachi 1:5-7
New Catholic Bible
5 Your own eyes will see this, and you will say,
“Great is the Lord,
even beyond the borders of Israel.”
The Blemished Offerings and Other Faults of Priests[a]
6 A son honors his father,
and a servant fears his master.
If then I am a father,
where is the honor due to me?
So says the Lord of hosts
to you priests who despise my name.
You ask, “How have we despised your name?”
7 By offering polluted food on my altar.
Then you ask, “How have we polluted it?”
By thinking that the table of the Lord may be despised.
Footnotes
- Malachi 1:6 This passage foretells a different and perfect sacrifice, which Christians identify with the Eucharistic sacrifice.