Malachi Chapter 2
2:1 | And now, O ye priests, this commandment [is] for you. |
2:2 | If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2:3 | Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, [even] the dung of your solemn feasts; and [one] shall take you away with it. |
2:4 | And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with ![]() |
2:5 | My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him [for] the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. |
2:6 | The law of ![]() |
2:7 | For the priest' lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he [is] the messenger of the LORD of hosts. |
2:8 | But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of ![]() |
2:9 | Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law. |
2:10 | Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why ![]() |
2:11 | Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in ![]() ![]() |
2:12 | The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts. |
2:13 | 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. |
2:14 | Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet [is] she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. |
2:15 | And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the ![]() ![]() |
2:16 | For the LORD, the God of ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2:17 | Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied [him]? When ye say, Every one that doeth ![]() |