Malachi 1:9

And now, I pray you, beseech G-d 1 that He will be gracious unto us; 1 with such offerings from your hand, 1 will He receive you? 1 saith Hashem Tzva'os. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.

In Context

8And when ye offer the blind animal for sacrifice, 1 is it not rah? 1 And when ye offer the lame and diseased, 1 is it not rah? 1 Offer it now unto thy governor; 1 will he be pleased with thee, 1 or receive thee? 1 saith Hashem Tzva'os. 1

10Who is there even among you that would shut the dlatayim of the Beis Hamikdash 1 so that eish would not be kindled on Mine mizbe'ach in vain? 1 There is no chefetz (pleasure) to Me with you, 1 saith Hashem Tzva'os, 1 neither will I accept a minchah at your hand. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 32:11And Moshe besought Hashem Elohav, and said, Hashem, why doth Thy wrath burn hot against Thy people, which Thou hast brought forth out of Eretz Mitzrayim with ko'ach gadol, and with a yad chazakah?

Jeremiah 26:19Did Chizkiyah Melech Yehudah and kol Yehudah put him to death? Did he not fear Hashem, and besought Hashem, and Hashem relented of the ra'ah which He had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure ra'ah gedolah against nafshoteinu.

Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out balailah; 1 in the beginning of the night watches 1 pour out thine lev like mayim 1 before the face of Adonoi; 1 lift up thy hands to Him 1 for the nefesh of thy ollelim, 1 that faint for hunger on every street corner. 1

Joel 2:17Let the kohanim, the mesharetim of Hashem, weep 1 between the Ulam and the Mizbe'ach, 1 and let them say: 1 Spare Thy people, Hashem, 1 and make not Thine nachalah (inheritance) an object of scorn, 1 a byword among the Goyim. 1 Why should they say among the peoples: 1 Where is their G-d? 1

John 9:31We have da'as that G-d does not listen to chote'im (sinners), but if anyone has chassidus, is a yore-shomayim and does the ratzon (will) of Him, this one Hashem hears. + 9:31 Ps 18:23-32; 34:15,16; 66:18; 145:19-20; 51:5 [7]; Prov 15:8,29; Isa 1:15; 59:1-2

Romans 2:11For ki ein masso panim im Hashem (there is no partiality with Hashem).

Matthew Henry on Malachi 1:7-14

God's Remonstrance with the Priests; Judgment of Wicked Priests. ( b. c. 400.) 6 A 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? 7 Ye 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. 8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice,… Read the whole commentary →

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