Malachi 2 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ “And now, O priests, this command is for you.

² “If you do not hear, and if you do not take it to heart, to give esteem to My Name,” said יהוה  of hosts, “I shall send a curse upon you, and I shall curse your blessings. And indeed, I have cursed them, because you do not take it to heart.

³ “See, I shall rebuke your seed, and scatter dung before your faces, the dung of your festivals. And you shall be taken away with it.

⁴ “And you shall know that I have sent this command to you, as being My covenant with Lĕ

⁵ “My covenant with him was life and peace, and I gave them to him, to fear. And he feared Me, and stood in awe of My Name.

⁶ “The Torah of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and straightness, and turned many away from crookedness.

⁷ “For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and they seek the Torah from his mouth, for he is the messenger of יהוה  of hosts.

⁸ “But you, you have turned from the way, you have caused many to stumble in the Torah. You have corrupted the covenant of Lĕ

⁹ “And I also, I shall make you despised and low before all the people, because you are not guarding My ways, and are showing partiality in the Torah.”

¹⁰ Have we not all one Father? Did not one Ě

¹¹ Yehuḏ

¹² Let יהוה  cut off from the tents of Yaʽ

¹³ And this you have done a second time: you cover the altar of יהוה  with tears, with weeping and crying, because He no longer regards the offering, nor receives it with pleasure from your hands.

¹⁴ And you said, “Why?” Because יהוה  has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have acted treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.

¹⁵ And did He not make one? And He had the remnant of the Spirit? And what is the one alone? He seeks a seed of Elohim. So you shall guard your spirit, and let none act treacherously against the wife of his youth.

¹⁶ “For I hate divorce,” said יהוה  Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

¹⁷ You have wearied יהוה  with your words, and you have said, “In what way have we wearied Him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of יהוה, and He is delighting in them,” or, “Where is the Elohim of right-ruling?”