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Malaquias 2

1 And now, O yeHe speaks mainly to them, but under them he includes the people also.priests, this commandment [is] for you.

2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give gloryTo serve me according to my word.unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse yourThat is, the abundance of God's benefits.blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart.

3 Behold, I will corruptThe seed you sow will come to no profit.your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, [even] theYou boast of your holiness, sacrifices, and feasts, but they will turn to your shame and be as vile as dung.dung of your solemn feasts; and [one] shall take you away with it.

4 And ye shall know that I haveThe Priests objected against the Prophet that he could not remove them without speaking against the priesthood, and the office established by God by promise. But he shows that the office is nothing slandered, when these villains and dung are called by their own names.sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

5 MyHe shows what were the two conditions of the covenant made with the tribe of Levi on God's part, that he would give them long life and felicity, and on their part, that they should faithfully serve him according to his word.covenant was with him of life and peace; and II commanded Levi a certain law to serve me.gave them to him [for] the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid beforeHe served me and set forth my glory with all humility and submission.my name.

6 The law ofHe shows that the priests ought to have knowledge to instruct others in the word of the Lord.truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.

7 For the priest'sHe is as the treasure house of God's word, and ought to give to everyone according to their need, and not to reserve it for himself.lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he [is] theShowing that whoever does not declare God's will, is not his messenger, and priest.messenger of the LORD of hosts.

8 But yee are gone out of the way: yee haue caused many to fall by the Lawe: yee haue broken the couenant of Leui, sayeth the Lord of hostes.

9 Therefore haue I also made you to be despised, and vile before all the people, because yee kept not my wayes, but haue beene partiall in the Lawe.

10 Have we not all oneThe Prophet accuses the ingratitude of the Jews toward God and man: for seeing they were all born of one father Abraham, as God had elected them to be his holy people, they ought neither to offend God nor their brethren.father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant ofBy which they had bound themselves to God to be a holy people.our fathers?

11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married theThey have united themselves in marriage with those that are of another religion.daughter of a strange god.

12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him thatThat is, the priest.offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.

13 And this have ye done again,Yet cause the people to lament, because God does not regard their sacrifices, so that they seem to sacrifice in vain.covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth [it] with good will at your hand.

14 Yet ye say,This is another fault, of which he accuses them, that is, that they broke the laws of marriage.Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet [is] she thyAs the one half of yourself.companion, and the wife of thyShe that was united to you by a solemn covenant, and by the invocation of God's name.covenant.

15 And did notDid not God make man and woman as one flesh and not many?he make one? Yet had he theBy his power and strength he could have made many women for one man.residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godlyThose who should be born in lawful and moderate marriage, in which is no excess of lusts.seed. Therefore take heed to yourContain yourselves within your bounds, and be sober in mind, and bridle your affections.spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that heNot that he allows divorce, but of two faults he shows which is the less.hateth putting away: for [one] coverethHe thinks it sufficient to keep his wife still, even though he takes others, and so as it were covers his fault.violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

17 Ye haveYou murmur against God, because he did not hear you as soon as you called.wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied [him]? When ye say, Every one that doethIn thinking that God favoured the wicked, and had no respect for those that serve him.evil [is] good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where [is] the God ofThus they blasphemed God in condemning his power and justice, because he did not judge according to their imaginings.judgment?

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