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现在,众祭司啊,这诫命是给你们的。 万军之耶和华说:“你们若不听,若不放在心上,将荣耀归给我的名,我就使诅咒临到你们,使你们的福分变为诅咒;其实我已经诅咒了你们的福分,因你们不把诫命放在心上。 看哪,我要斥责你们的后裔,把粪抹在你们脸上,就是你们祭牲[a]的粪。人要把你们和粪一起抬出去, 你们就知道我颁这诫命给你们,使我与利未所立的约可以常存。这是万军之耶和华说的。 我曾与他立生命和平安的约。我将这两样赐给他,使他存敬畏的心;他就敬畏我,惧怕我的名。 真实的训诲在他口中,他的嘴唇中没有不义。他以平安和正直与我同行,使许多人回转离开罪孽。 祭司的嘴唇当守护知识,人也当从他口中寻求训诲,因为他是万军之耶和华的使者。 你们却偏离正道,使许多人在这训诲上绊跌。你们破坏了我与利未人所立的约。这是万军之耶和华说的。 所以我使你们被众百姓藐视,看为卑贱;因你们不遵守我的道,在律法上看人的情面[b]。”

百姓对 神不忠

10 我们岂不都有一位父吗?岂不是一位 神创造了我们吗?为何互相行诡诈,亵渎了 神与我们列祖所立的约呢? 11 犹大行事诡诈,在以色列耶路撒冷中行了可憎的事;因为犹大亵渎耶和华所喜爱的圣殿,娶外邦神明的女子为妻。 12 凡做这事的,无论是清醒的[c]或回应的,即使献供物给万军之耶和华,耶和华也要将他从雅各的帐棚中剪除。

13 你们又再做这样的事,使哭泣和叹息的眼泪遮盖耶和华的祭坛,以致耶和华不再理会那供物,也不喜欢从你们的手中收纳。 14 你们还说:“这是为什么呢?”因为耶和华在你和你年轻时所娶的妻之间作证。她虽是你的配偶,你誓约[d]的妻,你却背弃她。 15 一个人如果还剩下一点灵性,他不会这么做。这人在寻找什么呢? 神的后裔![e]当谨守你们的灵性,谁也不可背弃年轻时所娶的妻。 16 耶和华—以色列的 神说:“我恨恶休妻的事和衣服外面披上暴力的人。所以当谨守你们的心,不可行诡诈。这是万军之耶和华说的。”

审判之日已近

17 你们用言语使耶和华厌烦,却说:“我们在何事上使他厌烦呢?”因为你们说:“凡行恶的,耶和华看为善,并且喜爱他们;”又说:“公平的 神在哪里呢?”

Footnotes

  1. 2.3 “祭牲”:原文是“节期”。
  2. 2.9 “在律法上看人的情面”或译“你们的训诲没有使人得福”。
  3. 2.12 “清醒的”或译“看守的”。
  4. 2.14 “誓约”与“配偶”的希伯来话发音相近。
  5. 2.15 “一个人…后裔!”或译“ 神有灵的余力,不是只能单造一人。为何只造一人呢?乃是愿人得 神的子孙。”

Additional Warning to the Priests

“And now, you priests, this warning is for you.(A) If you do not listen,(B) and if you do not resolve to honor(C) my name,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will send a curse(D) on you, and I will curse your blessings.(E) Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.

“Because of you I will rebuke your descendants[a]; I will smear on your faces the dung(F) from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it.(G) And you will know that I have sent you this warning so that my covenant with Levi(H) may continue,” says the Lord Almighty. “My covenant was with him, a covenant(I) of life and peace,(J) and I gave them to him; this called for reverence(K) and he revered me and stood in awe of my name. True instruction(L) was in his mouth and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked(M) with me in peace(N) and uprightness,(O) and turned many from sin.(P)

“For the lips of a priest(Q) ought to preserve knowledge, because he is the messenger(R) of the Lord Almighty and people seek instruction from his mouth.(S) But you have turned from the way(T) and by your teaching have caused many to stumble;(U) you have violated the covenant(V) with Levi,”(W) says the Lord Almighty. “So I have caused you to be despised(X) and humiliated(Y) before all the people, because you have not followed my ways but have shown partiality(Z) in matters of the law.”(AA)

Breaking Covenant Through Divorce

10 Do we not all have one Father[b]?(AB) Did not one God create us?(AC) Why do we profane the covenant(AD) of our ancestors by being unfaithful(AE) to one another?

11 Judah has been unfaithful. A detestable(AF) thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the Lord loves(AG) by marrying(AH) women who worship a foreign god.(AI) 12 As for the man who does this, whoever he may be, may the Lord remove(AJ) him from the tents of Jacob[c](AK)—even though he brings an offering(AL) to the Lord Almighty.

13 Another thing you do: You flood the Lord’s altar with tears.(AM) You weep and wail(AN) because he no longer looks with favor(AO) on your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands.(AP) 14 You ask,(AQ) “Why?” It is because the Lord is the witness(AR) between you and the wife of your youth.(AS) You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.(AT)

15 Has not the one God made you?(AU) You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.[d](AV) So be on your guard,(AW) and do not be unfaithful(AX) to the wife of your youth.

16 “The man who hates and divorces his wife,(AY)” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,”[e](AZ) says the Lord Almighty.

So be on your guard,(BA) and do not be unfaithful.

Breaking Covenant Through Injustice

17 You have wearied(BB) the Lord with your words.

“How have we wearied him?” you ask.(BC)

By saying, “All who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased(BD) with them” or “Where is the God of justice?(BE)

Footnotes

  1. Malachi 2:3 Or will blight your grain
  2. Malachi 2:10 Or father
  3. Malachi 2:12 Or 12 May the Lord remove from the tents of Jacob anyone who gives testimony in behalf of the man who does this
  4. Malachi 2:15 The meaning of the Hebrew for the first part of this verse is uncertain.
  5. Malachi 2:16 Or “I hate divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “because the man who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,”

Corrupt Priests

“And now, O (A)priests, this commandment is for you.
(B)If you will not hear,
And if you will not take it to heart,
To give glory to My name,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“I will send a curse upon you,
And I will curse your blessings.
Yes, I have cursed them (C)already,
Because you do not take it to heart.

“Behold, I will rebuke your descendants
And spread (D)refuse on your faces,
The refuse of your solemn feasts;
And one will (E)take you away [a]with it.
Then you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you,
That My covenant with Levi may continue,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
“My(F) covenant was with him, one of life and peace,
And I gave them to him (G)that he might fear Me;
So he feared Me
And was reverent before My name.
(H)The[b] law of truth was in his mouth,
And [c]injustice was not found on his lips.
He walked with Me in peace and equity,
And (I)turned many away from iniquity.

“For(J) the lips of a priest should keep knowledge,
And people should seek the law from his mouth;
(K)For he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
But you have departed from the way;
You (L)have caused many to stumble at the law.
(M)You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
“Therefore (N)I also have made you contemptible and base
Before all the people,
Because you have not kept My ways
But have shown (O)partiality in the law.”

Treachery of Infidelity

10 (P)Have we not all one Father?
(Q)Has not one God created us?
Why do we deal treacherously with one another
By profaning the covenant of the fathers?
11 Judah has dealt treacherously,
And an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem,
For Judah has (R)profaned
The Lord’s holy institution which He loves:
He has married the daughter of a foreign god.
12 May the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob
The man who does this, being [d]awake and aware,
Yet (S)who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts!

13 And this is the second thing you do:
You cover the altar of the Lord with tears,
With weeping and crying;
So He does not regard the offering anymore,
Nor receive it with goodwill from your hands.
14 Yet you say, “For what reason?”
Because the Lord has been witness
Between you and (T)the wife of your youth,
With whom you have dealt treacherously;
(U)Yet she is your companion
And your wife by covenant.
15 But (V)did He not make them one,
Having a remnant of the Spirit?
And why one?
He seeks (W)godly offspring.
Therefore take heed to your spirit,
And let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth.

16 “For (X)the Lord God of Israel says
That He hates divorce,
For it covers one’s garment with violence,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
“Therefore take heed to your spirit,
That you do not deal treacherously.”

17 (Y)You have wearied the Lord with your words;
Yet you say,
“In what way have we wearied Him?
In that you say,
(Z)“Everyone who does evil
Is good in the sight of the Lord,
And He delights in them,”
Or, “Where is the God of justice?”

Footnotes

  1. Malachi 2:3 Lit. to it
  2. Malachi 2:6 Or True instruction
  3. Malachi 2:6 Or unrighteousness
  4. Malachi 2:12 Talmud, Vg. teacher and student