Warning to the Priests

2 “Therefore, this decree^(A) is for you priests:

² If you don’t listen, and if you don’t take it to heart^(A) to honor my name,” says the Lord of Armies, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings.^(B) In fact, I have already begun to curse them because you are not taking it to heart.

¹¹ All Israel has broken your law and turned away,^(A) refusing to obey you. The promised curse^[a] written in the law of Moses,^(B) the servant of God, has been poured out on us because we have sinned against him.