Malachi 2:8-17 ▼

8 |But as for you, you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by the instruction; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi,| says the LORD of hosts.

9 |So I also have made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction.

10 |Do we not all have one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously each against his brother so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

11 |Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the LORD which He loves and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

12 |[As] for the man who does this, may the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob [everyone] who awakes and answers, or who presents an offering to the LORD of hosts.

13 |This is another thing you do: you cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and with groaning, because He no longer regards the offering or accepts [it with] favor from your hand.

14 |Yet you say, 'For what reason?' Because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

15 |But not one has done [so] who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did [that] one [do] while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.

16 |For I hate divorce,| says the LORD, the God of Israel, |and him who covers his garment with wrong,| says the LORD of hosts. |So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.|

17 You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, |How have we wearied [Him]?| In that you say, |Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and He delights in them,| or, |Where is the God of justice?|