Malachi 1:12

“But ye have profaned it, etc.] That is, the name of the Lord, which they are said to despise, (<390106>Malachi 1:6) and pollute, (<390107>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”, (<390107>Malachi 1:7) as Kimchi observes; (see Gill on “<390107>Malachi 1:7”): and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat is contemptible; the word for fruitf37 sometimes is used for speech, the fruit of the lips, (<235719>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…”

“Renewal of the charge in Mal 1:7. fruit . . . meat--the offerings of the people. The "fruit" is the produce of the altar, on which the priests subsisted. They did not literally say, The Lord's table is contemptible; but their acts virtually said so. They did not act so as to lead the people to reverence, and to offer their best to the Lord on it. The people were poor, and put off God with the worst offerings. The priests let them do so, for fear of offending the people, and so losing all gains from them.”

“And ye have profaned - o (are habitually profaning it), in that ye say It was the daily result of their daily lives and acts. “It is probable that the priests did not use such words, but that by their very deeds, they proclaimed this aloud: as in the, ‘The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.’ For in that he is seen to be a despiser, though he say it not in words, yet, by their very deeds and by the crookedness of their lives, they all but cry out, There is no God. For they who live as though God beheld not, and do all things recklessly and unholily, by their own deeds and works deny God. So they who are not earnest to preserve to the holy altar the reverence becoming to it, by the…”

“But ye - O priests! And the people by your examples. Ye say - By your deportment. Is polluted - Not a sacred thing. His meat - Either the meat which fell to the priest's share, or the portion which was laid upon the altar. Malachi 1:13”

“1:12 Dishonor was an ongoing state of affairs. Ironically, the guardians of Israel’s covenant relationship with the Lord were habitually profaning his Temple with impure sacrifices.”

“ye have: Mal 1:6, Mal 1:8, Mal 2:8; Sa2 12:14; Eze 36:21-23; Amo 2:7; Rom 2:24 The table: Mal 1:7, Mal 1:13; Num 11:4-8; Dan 5:3, Dan 5:4 Malachi 1:13”