To DESPISE — to treat a thing as of no account, the exact opposite of kaved ('honor,' literally to treat as heavy). It runs down Malachi 1 like a drumbeat: priests who 'despise my name' (v6), a table that 'is contemptible' (vv7, 12). Not unbelief; contempt. The charge is that God has been found SLIGHT. → first discussed at Malachi 1:6