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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Malachi 2 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/malachi/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/malachi/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Malachi 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../malachi/1.htm" title="Malachi 1">◄</a> Malachi 2 <a href="../malachi/3.htm" title="Malachi 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/malachi/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Rebukes the Priests</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“And now, O priests, this command is for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Behold, I will rebuke your offspring,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew seed">a</a></sup></span> and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or to it">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>True instruction<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or law; also verses 7, 8, 9">c</a></sup></span> was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew they">d</a></sup></span> should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.”</p> <p class="heading">Judah Profaned the Covenant</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>May the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew any who wakes and answers">e</a></sup></span> of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts!</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And this second thing you do. You cover the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union?<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew in it">f</a></sup></span> And what was the one God<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew the one">g</a></sup></span> seeking?<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or And not one has done this who has a portion of the Spirit. And what was that one seeking?">h</a></sup></span> Godly offspring. So guard yourselves<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or So take care; also verse 16">i</a></sup></span> in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew who hates and divorces">j</a></sup></span> says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, covers<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Probable meaning (compare Septuagint and Deuteronomy 24:1-4); or The LORD, the God of Israel, says that he hates divorce, and him who covers">k</a></sup></span> his garment with violence, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”</p> <p class="heading">The Messenger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>You have wearied the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Hebrew <i>seed</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>to it</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Or <i>law</i>; also verses 7, 8, 9<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> Hebrew <i>they</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">any</span> who wakes and answers</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">in</span> it</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Hebrew <i class="catch-word">the one</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i>And not one has done this who has a portion of the Spirit. And what was that one seeking?</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">i</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">So</span> take care</i>; also verse 16<br /><span class="footnotesbot">j</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">who</span> hates and divorces</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">k</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Probable meaning (compare Septuagint and Deuteronomy 24:1 - 4); or <i>"The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, says that he hates divorce, and him who covers</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. 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