Malachi 2:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Behold, I will rebuke the seed for your sake, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your sacrifices; and ye shall be taken away with it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Behold, I will rebuke your seed [grain–which will prevent due harvest], and I will spread the dung from the festival offerings upon your faces, and you shall be taken away with it.

American Standard Version (1901)

Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and ye shall be taken away with it.

Common English Bible

I am about to denounce your offspring; I will scatter feces on your faces, the feces of your festivals. Then I will lift you up to me,

Catholic Public Domain Version

Behold, I will cast forth an arm to you, and I will scatter across your face the dung of your solemnities, and it will take you to itself.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Behold, I will cast the shoulder to you, and I will scatter upon your face the dung of your solemnities, and it shall take you away with it.

Malachi 2:3 Cross References

1 Kings 14:10

therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every man child, him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweepeth away dung, till it be all gone.

Job 20:7

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Psalm 47:5

God is gone up with a shout, The LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

Psalm 83:10

Which perished at En-dor; They became as dung for the earth.

Exodus 29:14

But the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and its dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.

Jeremiah 8:2

and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

Joel 1:10

The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

Joel 1:17

The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

Leviticus 26:16

I also will do this unto you; I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Nahum 3:6

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

Malachi 2:9

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.

Luke 14:35

It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill: men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

1 Corinthians 4:13

being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.

Deuteronomy 28:38

Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.