^25 (A)“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

⁵ “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in ^(A)the fifth month and in ^(B)the seventh, for these ^(C)seventy years, ^(D)was it ^(E)for me that you fasted? ^6 (F)And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

³⁰ For ^(A)my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

⁸ Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. ^(A)But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ ^(B)In your tithes and contributions.

¹³ But you say, ^(A)‘What a weariness this is,’ and you snort at it, says the Lord of hosts. ^(B)You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the Lord. ¹⁴ Cursed be the cheat who has ^(C)a male in his flock, and ^(D)vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For ^(E)I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, and my name ^(F)will be feared among the nations.

The Priests' Polluted Offerings

^6 (A)“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am ^(B)a father, where is my honor? And if I am ^(C)a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. ^(D)But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ ^7 (E)By offering polluted food upon my altar. ^(F)But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that ^(G)the Lord's table may be despised. ^8 (H)When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the Lord of hosts.

²² For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them ^(A)concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.