Study it in the app“Who also among you will shut the doors, so that you do not light my altar for nothing? I have no pleasure in you, says YHWH Tsevaot, and an offering I will not accept from your hand.”
Whoמִיalsoגַםamong youבָּכֶםwill shutוְיִסְגֹּרthe doors,דְּלָתַיִםso that you do notוְלֹאlightתָאִירוּmy altarמִזְבְּחִיfor nothing?חִנָּםI haveלִיnoאֵיןpleasureחֵפֶץin you,בָּכֶםsaysאָמַרYHWHיְהוָהTsevaot,צְבָאוֹתand an offeringוּמִנְחָהI will notלֹאacceptאֶרְצֶהfrom your hand.מִיֶּדְכֶם
shut
To bolt a door, or leave someone shut in with no way out.
Where else “yisgor” appearsdoor
The wooden or metal leaf that opens and shuts the entrance of a house or city.
Where else “delatayim” appearsgive light
To fill with light and drive away darkness; also to light a lamp.
Where else “tairu” appearsaltar
Altar: a structure of stone or earth on which sacrifices are offered to God.
Where else “mizbchi” appearsfree
Free, at no cost.
Where else “chinam” appearsdelight
What pleases someone.
Where else “chefets” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amar” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsTsevaot
A name of God: the one who commands the armies of heaven and earth.
Where else “tsevaot” appearsoffering
An offering to God.
Where else “mincha” appearsaccept
To gladly receive an offering or someone.
Where else “ertse” appearshand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yed” appears9And now, implore, please, the face of El, that he may favor us. From your hand this has come: will he lift up the face of any of you? says YHWH Tsevaot.
10 · This verse (above)
11For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the nations; and in every place incense is burned and offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations, says YHWH Tsevaot.
