Malachi 2:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

³ Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung upon your faces, the dung of your offerings, and I will put you out of my presence.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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

³ 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)

³ 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

³ 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

³ 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

³ 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 male, both bond and free in Israel, and will utterly consume the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.

Job 20:7

he will perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

Psalm 47:5

God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

Psalm 83:10

who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.

Exodus 29:14

But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

Jeremiah 8:2

and they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped; and they shall not be gathered or buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.

Joel 1:10

The fields are laid waste, the ground mourns; because the grain is destroyed, the wine fails, the oil languishes.

Joel 1:17

The seed shrivels under the clods, the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are ruined because the grain has failed.

Leviticus 26:16

I will do this to you: I will appoint over you sudden terror, consumption and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it;

Nahum 3:6

I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a gazingstock.

Malachi 2:9

and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in your instruction.”

Luke 14:35

It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill; men throw it away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

1 Corinthians 4:13

when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things.

Deuteronomy 28:38

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