Malachi 2 KJV Easy Read Bible

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Corrupt Priests

1And now, O you^p priests, this commandment is for you^p.

2If you^p will not hear, and if you^p will not lay it to heart, to give glory to My name, says the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you^p, and I will curse your^p blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because you^p do not lay it to heart. Jehovah^s.f. Tsebaoth

3Behold, I will corrupt your^p seed, and spread dung upon your^p faces, even the dung of your^p solemn feasts; and one shall take you^p away with it. offspring; refuse, manure

4And you^p shall know that I have sent this commandment to you^p, that My covenant might be with Levi, says the Lord of hosts. agreement

5My 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. reverence; revered

6The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with Me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. uprightness

7For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

8But you^p are departed out of the way; you^p have caused many to stumble at the law; you^p have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts.

9Therefore have I also made you^p contemptible and base before all the people, according as you^p have not kept My ways, but have been partial in the law.

Treachery of Infidelity

10Have we not all one father? has not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? 1 COR 8:6 | violating

11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the Lord which He loved, and has married the daughter of a strange god. evil thing

12The Lord will cut off the man that does this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offers an offering to the Lord of hosts.

13And this have you^p done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that He regards not the offering any more, or receives it with good will at your^p hand.

14Yet you^p say, Wherefore? Because the Lord has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously: yet is she your companion, and the wife of your covenant. why

15And did not He make one? Yet had he the residue of the Spirit. And wherefore one? That He might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your^p spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. remainder

16For the Lord, the God of Israel, says that He hates putting away: for one covers violence with his garment, says the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your^p spirit, that you^p deal not treacherously. divorce

17You^p have wearied the Lord with your^p words. Yet you^p say, Wherein have we wearied Him? When you^p say, Every one that does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and He delights in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

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