Yahweh rebukes the priests using a rhetorical conversation in which the priests protest that they are doing right and Yahweh tells them how they are doing wrong.

## despise my name ##

<b>despise my name<b>-"treat me as though you hate me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

## But you say, 'How have we despised your name?' ##

"you priests say, 'How have we treated you as though we hate you?'" Alternate translation: "You have despised me but you say you have not!" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

## polluted bread ##

food that was unacceptable for sacrifice

## And you say, 'How have we polluted you?' ##

Alternate translation: "You think you have been acceptable to me but you have not!"

## table ##

altar (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]])