Discovery BoxMalachi 3:14 
Context3:14 You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped 1 by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all? 2
Malachi 1:10
Context1:10 “I wish that one of you would close the temple doors, 3 so that you no longer would light useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and I will no longer accept an offering from you.
1 tn Heb “What [is the] profit”; NIV “What did we gain.”
2 sn The people’s public display of self-effacing piety has gone unrewarded by the
3 sn The rhetorical language suggests that as long as the priesthood and people remain disobedient, the temple doors may as well be closed because God is not “at home” to receive them or their worship there.
