Malachi 1:7
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.

Young's Literal Translation
Ye are bringing nigh on Mine altar polluted bread, And ye have said: ‘In what have we polluted Thee?’ In your saying: ‘The table of Jehovah—it [is] despicable,’

King James Bible
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.

Hebrew
“By presenting
מַגִּישִׁ֤ים (mag·gî·šîm)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 5066: To draw near, approach

defiled
מְגֹאָ֔ל (mə·ḡō·’āl)
Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 1351: To soil, desecrate

food
לֶ֣חֶם (le·ḥem)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain

on
עַֽל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

My altar.”
מִזְבְּחִי֙ (miz·bə·ḥî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4196: An altar

You ask,
וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם (wa·’ă·mar·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“How
בַּמֶּ֣ה (bam·meh)
Preposition-b | Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

have we defiled You?”
גֵֽאַלְנ֑וּךָ (ḡê·’al·nū·ḵā)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common plural | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1351: To soil, desecrate

“By saying that
בֶּאֱמָרְכֶ֕ם (be·’ĕ·mā·rə·ḵem)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

the table
שֻׁלְחַ֥ן (šul·ḥan)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7979: A table, a meal

of the LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

is contemptible.”
נִבְזֶ֥ה (niḇ·zeh)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 959: To disesteem

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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