Malaquías 1:12

12 Pero ustedes lo profanan cuando dicen que la mesa del Señor está mancillada y que su alimento es despreciable.

Malaquías 1:12 Meaning and Commentary

Malachi 1:12

But ye have profaned it
That is, the name of the Lord, which they are said to despise, ( Malachi 1:6 ) and pollute, ( Malachi 1:7 ) and is a reason why they and their offerings were rejected: and that they profaned the name of the Lord appears by this, in that ye say, The table of the Lord [is] polluted:
the same with "contemptible", ( Malachi 1:7 ) as Kimchi observes; (See Gill on Malachi 1:7): and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat is contemptible;
the word for fruit ^F15 sometimes is used for speech, the fruit of the lips, ( Isaiah 57:19 ) and taken in this sense here, as it is by some, may be understood either of the word of God, which commanded such and such sacrifices to be offered up upon the altar, and was despised, so Abarbinel: or the word of the priests, who were continually saying that what was offered up on the altar was contemptible, even the food which they ate of; so Jarchi and Kimchi. "Fruit" and "meat" seem to signify one and the same thing, and design the fruit and meat of the altar; either that which belonged to the Lord, the fat and the blood, which were offered to him, and were reckoned contemptible; or that which fell to the share of the priests, which they thought mean and worthless. Cocceius interprets this of Christ the Branch of the Lord, and fruit of the earth, ( Isaiah 4:2 ) whose meat it was to do the will of him that sent him, and was despised and rejected by the Jews; and which was the reason of God's casting them off, and taking in the Gentiles.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (wbyn) "et verbum ejus", Pagninus, Munster; "sermo ejus, [vel] eorum", Vatablus; so Ben Melech.

Malaquías 1:12 In-Context

10 ¡Cómo quisiera que alguno de ustedes clausurara el templo, para que no encendieran en vano el fuego de mi altar! No estoy nada contento con ustedes —dice el SEÑOR Todopoderoso—, y no voy a aceptar ni una sola ofrenda de sus manos.

11 Porque desde donde nace el sol hasta donde se pone, grande es mi nombre entre las naciones. En todo lugar se ofrece incienso y ofrendas puras a mi nombre, porque grande es mi nombre entre las naciones —dice el SEÑOR Todopoderoso—.

12 Pero ustedes lo profanan cuando dicen que la mesa del Señor está mancillada y que su alimento es despreciable.

13 Y exclaman: “¡Qué hastío!” Y me tratan con desdén —dice el SEÑOR Todopoderoso—. ¿Y creen que voy a aceptar de sus manos los animales lesionados, cojos o enfermos que ustedes me traen como sacrificio? —dice el SEÑOR—.

14 »¡Maldito sea el tramposo que, teniendo un macho aceptable en su rebaño, se lo dedica al Señor y luego le ofrece un animal mutilado! Porque yo soy el gran rey —dice el SEÑOR Todopoderoso—, y temido es mi nombre entre las naciones.