Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And also I set you despised and low to all the people, according as ye watch not my way, and lift up the face against the law.
New American Standard Bible
“So
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
“So I in turn have made you despised
International Standard Version
"So I also made you despised, humiliating you before all of the people, because you aren't following my ways and are showing partiality when you teach."
A Conservative Version
Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
American Standard Version
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
Amplified
“So I have also made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality [to people] in [your administration of] the law.”
Bible in Basic English
And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
Darby Translation
And I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have respect of persons in administering the law.
King James 2000
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"And in turn I have made you despised and humbled before all the people, inasmuch as you [are] not keeping my way, but are {favoring your own instruction}."
Modern King James verseion
Therefore I have also made you despised and low before all the people, just as you have not kept My ways but are lifting up faces in the law.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Therefore will I also make you to be despised, and to be of no reputation among all the people: because ye have not kept my ways, but been partial in the law.
NET Bible
"Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your instruction."
New Heart English Bible
"Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore, I also, will suffer you to be despised and of no account unto all the people, - in proportion as none of you have been keeping my ways, but have had respect to persons, in giving your deliverance.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
"Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.
Interlinear
Nathan
Bazah
Peh
Shamar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Malachi 2:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Oracle Against The Temple Priesthood
8 And ye departed out of the way; ye made many weak by the law; ye corrupted the covenant of Levi, said Jehovah of armies. 9 And also I set you despised and low to all the people, according as ye watch not my way, and lift up the face against the law. 10 Is there not one father to us all? is there not one God creating us? wherefore shall we deal faithlessly each against his brother, to profane the covenant of our fathers?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:17
Ye shall not look upon faces in judgment; as the small so the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is to God; and the word which shall be hard for you, ye shall bring to me and I heard it
1 Samuel 2:30
For this Jehovah the God of Israel said, Saying, I said, Thy house and the house of thy father shall go before me even forever: and now Jehovah said, Far be it for me; for them honoring me I will honor, and they despising me shall be contemned.
1 Kings 22:28
And Micaiah will say, If turning back, thou shalt turn back in peace, Jehovah spake not in me. And he will say, Hear, ye peoples, all of them.
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the just one for blessing: and the name of the wicked shall be rotten.
Jeremiah 28:15-16
And Jeremiah the prophet will say to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; Jehovah sent thee not; and thou didst cause this people to trust upon falsehood.
Jeremiah 29:20-22
And hear ye the word of Jehovah, all the captivity which I sent from Jerusalem into Babel.
Jeremiah 29:31-32
Send to all the captivity, saying, Thus said Jehovah to Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because Shemaiah prophesied to you, and I sent him not, and he will cause you to trust in falsehood:
Ezekiel 13:12-16
And behold, the wall fell; shall it not be said to you, Where the plastering which ye plastered?
Ezekiel 13:21
And I rent your cushions and I delivered my people from your hand, and they shall no more be in your hand for being laid in wait for; and ye knew that I am Jehovah.
Daniel 12:2-3
And many sleeping in the earth of dust shall awake, these to eternal life, and these to reproach and eternal abhorrence.
Micah 3:6-7
For this, night to you from a vision, and darkness to you from divining; and the sun went down upon the prophets, and the day was dark upon them.
Malachi 2:3
Behold me rebuking the seed to you, and I scattered dung upon your faces, the dung of your festivals; and it lifted you up to it.
Malachi 2:8
And ye departed out of the way; ye made many weak by the law; ye corrupted the covenant of Levi, said Jehovah of armies.
Matthew 5:21-22
Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill: and whoever should kill shall be subject to judgment:
Matthew 5:27-28
Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Matthew 5:33-37
Again, ye have heard, that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not swear a false oath, and thou shalt. return to the Lord thine oaths.
Matthew 5:43-44
Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.
Matthew 19:17-18
And he said to him, Why sayest thou me good? None is good except one, God; but if thou wouldst come into life, keep the commands.
Matthew 23:16-24
Woe to you blind guides, saying, Whoever should swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever should swear by the gold of the temple, he is indebted!
Mark 7:8-14
For having left the command of God, ye hold firmly to the tradition of men, the immersion of measures and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
Luke 10:29
And he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor
Luke 11:42
But woe to you, Pharisees! for ye tithe spearmint and rue and every plant, and ye pass by the judgment and love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to have left those.
Luke 20:45-47
And all the people hearing, he said to his disciples,
Romans 7:7-10
What then shall we say? The law sin? It may not be. But I knew not sin except by the law: for I knew not lust, if the law said not, Thou shalt not eagerly desire.
Galatians 2:6
And from them seeming to be something, (whatever they were, it concerns me nothing: God receives not man's face:) for they seeming entrusted nothing to me: