Malachi 2

¹ And now, O ye priestspriests, this commandmentcommandment is for you.

² If ye will not hearhear, and if ye will not lay it to heartheart, to givegive glory unto my namename, saithsaith Jehovah of hostsJehovah of hosts, then will I sendsend the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heartheart.

³ Behold, I will rebuke your seedseed, and will spread dung upon your facesfaces, even the dung of your feasts; and ye shall be taken away with it.

⁴ And ye shall knowknow that I have sentsent this commandmentcommandment unto you, that my covenant may be with LeviLevi, saithsaith Jehovah of hostsJehovah of hosts.

⁵ My covenant was with him of lifelife and peacepeace; and I gave them to him that he mightmight fearfear; and he fearedfeared me, and stood in awe of my namename.

⁶ The law of truthtruth was in his mouthmouth, and unrighteousness was not foundfound in his lipslips: he walkedwalked with me in peacepeace and uprightness, and turnedturned manymany away from iniquityiniquity.

⁷ For the priest'spriest's lipslips should keepkeep knowledgeknowledge, and they should seekseek the law at his mouthmouth; for he is the messengermessenger of Jehovah of hostsJehovah of hosts.

⁸ But ye are turnedturned aside out of the wayway; ye have caused manymany to stumblestumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of LeviLevi, saithsaith Jehovah of hostsJehovah of hosts.

⁹ Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base beforebefore all the people, according as ye have not keptkept my waysways, but have had respect of persons in the law.

¹⁰ Have we not all oneone fatherfather? hath not oneone God createdcreated usus? why do we deal treacherously every manman against his brotherbrother, profaning the covenant of our fathersfathers?

¹¹ JudahJudah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in IsraelIsrael and in JerusalemJerusalem; for JudahJudah hath profaned the holinessholiness of JehovahJehovah which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god.

¹² JehovahJehovah will cut offcut off, to the manman that doeth this, him that waketh and him that answerethanswereth, out of the tentstents of JacobJacob, and him that offereth an offeringoffering unto Jehovah of hostsJehovah of hosts.

¹³ And this again ye do: ye covercover the altaraltar of JehovahJehovah with tearstears, with weepingweeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offeringoffering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your handhand.

¹⁴ Yet ye saysay, Wherefore? Because JehovahJehovah hath been witness between thee and the wifewife of thy youthyouth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wifewife of thy covenant.

¹⁵ And did he not make oneone, although he had the residueresidue of the Spirit? And wherefore oneone? He sought a godly seedseed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let nonenone deal treacherously against the wife of his youthwife of his youth.

¹⁶ For I hatehate putting away, saithsaith JehovahJehovah, the GodGod of IsraelIsrael, and him that coverethcovereth his garmentgarment with violenceviolence, saithsaith Jehovah of hostsJehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

¹⁷ Ye have wearied JehovahJehovah with your wordswords. Yet ye saysay, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye saysay, Every oneEvery one that doeth evilevil is goodgood in the sightsight of JehovahJehovah, and he delighteth in them; or where is the GodGod of justicejustice?