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Malachi 2:1

Serving others
“And now this decree is for you, O priests:

2 If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.

3 Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the waste from your feasts, and you will be carried off with it.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
“And now this decree is for you, O priests:
KJV
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
WEB
“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.
ASV
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
DARBY
And now, ye priests, this commandment is for you.
BLB
[“] And now, to you⁺ [is] this commandment, O priests:
ÅB
Og nå kommer dette bud til dere, dere prester!
OTB
«Og nå, denne advarselen er for dere, prester.
B1930
Og nu kommer dette bud til eder, I prester!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Hosea 5:1

    “Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.

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  • Jeremiah 13:13

    then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land—the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem.

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  • Malachi 1:6

    “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

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  • Lamentations 4:13

    But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

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