⁸ When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals,^(A) is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased^(B) with you? Would he accept you?” says the Lord Almighty.^(C)

⁹ “Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings^(D) from your hands, will he accept^(E) you?”—says the Lord Almighty.

¹⁰ “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors,^(F) so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased^(G) with you,” says the Lord Almighty, “and I will accept^(H) no offering^(I) from your hands.