And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
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Gill's Exposition
And this have ye done again,.... Or "in the second" (b) place; to their rejection and ill treatment of Christ they added their hypocritical prayers and tears, as follows:
covering the altar of the…
Barnes' Notes
And this ye have done again - , adding the second sin of cruelty to their wives to the taking foreign women; “they covered the altar of God with tears,” in that they by ill-treatment occasioned their…
Corrupt practices are the genuine fruit and product of corrupt principles; and the badness of men's hearts and lives is owing to some loose atheistical notions which they have got and which they…
Cambridge Bible
again Lit. second. The first evil of marrying heathen women was accompanied by a second, the cruel treatment and divorce ("putting-away," Mal 2:2) of their lawful wives, which is now dealt with, Mal…
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