⁷ For the lips of a priest should maintain ^(A)knowledge, and people should ^(B)seek ^[a]instruction from his mouth; for he is the ^(C)messenger of the Lord of armies.

⁷ “From the ^(A)days of your fathers you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. ^(B)Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’