Malachi 2:2-5

English Standard Version

^2 (A)If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send ^(B)the curse upon you and I will curse ^(C)your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. ³ Behold, ^(D)I will rebuke your offspring,^[a] and ^(E)spread dung on your faces, the ^(F)dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.^{[b] 4} So shall you know that I have sent ^(G)this command to you, that ^(H)my covenant with Levi may stand, says the Lord of hosts. ⁵ My covenant with him was one of life and ^(I)peace, and I gave them to him. ^(J)It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name.