Malachi 1:2; Malachi 1:6-7

2 "I have loved you," says the LORD. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esav Ya`akov's brother?" says the LORD, "Yet I loved Ya`akov;

6 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says the LORD of Hosts to you, Kohanim, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'

7 You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, 'How have we polluted you?' In that you say, 'The LORD's table contemptible.'