Malachi 2:1-9
Priests to Be Disciplined
1 “And now this commandment is for you, O priests.
2 If you do (A)not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name,” says the Lord of hosts, “then I will send the (B)curse upon you and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have (C)cursed them already, because you are not taking it to heart.
3 Behold, I am going to (D)rebuke your (a)offspring, and I will (E)spread (b)refuse on your faces, the (c)refuse of your (F)feasts; and you will be taken away (d)with it.
4 Then you will know that I have sent this commandment to you, (e)that My (G)covenant may (f)continue with Levi,” says the Lord of hosts.
5 “My covenant with him was one of life and (H)peace, and I gave them to him as an object of (g)reverence; so he (h)(I)revered Me and stood in awe of My name.
6 (i)(J)True instruction was in his mouth and unrighteousness was not found on his lips; he walked (K)with Me in peace and uprightness, and he (L)turned many back from iniquity.
7 For the lips of a priest should preserve (M)knowledge, and (j)men should (N)seek (k)instruction from his mouth; for he is the (O)messenger of the Lord of hosts.
8 But as for you, you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to (P)stumble (l)by the instruction; you have (m)(Q)corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says the Lord of hosts.
9 “So (R)I also have made you despised and (S)abased (n)before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing (T)partiality in the (o)instruction.
Footnotes:
a.
Malachi 2:3: ['Lit ', seed]
b.
Malachi 2:3: ['Or ', vomit]
c.
Malachi 2:3: ['Or ', vomit]
d.
Malachi 2:3: ['Lit ', to]
e.
Malachi 2:4: ['Or ', to be My covenant with]
f.
Malachi 2:4: ['Lit ', be]
g.
Malachi 2:5: ['Or ', fear]
h.
Malachi 2:5: ['Or ', feared]
i.
Malachi 2:6: ['Or ', Law of truth]
j.
Malachi 2:7: ['Lit ', they]
k.
Malachi 2:7: ['Or ', law]
l.
Malachi 2:8: ['Or ', in the law]
m.
Malachi 2:8: ['Or ', violated]
n.
Malachi 2:9: ['Lit ', to]
o.
Malachi 2:9: ['Or ', law]