Malachi 2:1-9 ▼

1 “ And now, to you? is this commandment, O priests:

2 If you? do not listen and if you? do not set it upon the heart to give glory to My name,” says YHWH of Hosts, “Then I will send upon you? the curse, and I will curse your? blessings; indeed already I have cursed them, because there is none of you? setting it upon the heart.

3 Behold, I am giving a rebuke to your? seed, and I will spread dung on your? faces, the dung from your? feasts, and it will carry you? off with it.

4 And you? will know that I have sent to you? this commandment, in order to continue My covenant with Levi,” says YHWH of Hosts.

5 “My covenant was with him—life and peace—and I gave them to him; fear, and he feared Me, and before My name he was in awe.

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

7 For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and instruction they should seek from his mouth, for he is the messenger of YHWH of Hosts.

8 And you? have turned aside from the way, you? have caused many to stumble by your instruction; you? have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says YHWH of Hosts.

9 “And also I have made you? despised and low before all the people, according to the measure by which you? were not keeping guard of My ways, and were lifting faces regarding the instruction.”