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Malachi 2
New International Version
Malachi 2
New International Version
Additional Warning to the Priests
2 “And now, you priests, this warning is for you.(A) 2 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.
3 “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) 4 And you will know that I have sent you this warning so that my covenant with Levi(H) may continue,” says the Lord Almighty. 5 “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. 6 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)
7 “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) 8 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. 9 “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
- Malachi 2:3 Or will blight your grain
- Malachi 2:10 Or father
- 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
- Malachi 2:15 The meaning of the Hebrew for the first part of this verse is uncertain.
- 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,”
Malaki 2
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Malaki 2
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Prästernas synd
2 Och nu kommer denna befallning till er, ni präster:
2 Om ni inte vill höra,
om ni inte lägger på hjärtat
att ge mitt namn ära,
säger Herren Sebaot,
då skall jag sända förbannelse mot er.
Jag skall förbanna era välsignelser,
ja, jag har redan förbannat dem,
eftersom ni inte lägger detta på hjärtat.
3 Se, jag skall straffa er avkomma
och kasta orenlighet i ansiktet på er,
orenlighet från era högtidsoffer,
och man skall bära bort er tillsammans med den.
4 Och ni skall förstå att jag har gett er denna befallning,
för att mitt förbund med Levi skall bestå,
säger Herren Sebaot.
5 Mitt förbund med honom var liv och frid,
och jag gav honom detta
för att han skulle frukta mig.
Och han fruktade mig
och bävade för mitt namn.
6 Sann undervisning var i hans mun,
ingen orätt fanns på hans läppar.
I frid och uppriktighet
vandrade han med mig,
och han omvände många från deras missgärningar.
7 Ty prästens läppar skall bevara kunskap,
och undervisning skall man hämta från hans mun.
Han är en budbärare från Herren Sebaot.
8 Men ni har vikit av från vägen,
genom er undervisning har många kommit på fall.
Ni har fördärvat förbundet med Levi,
säger Herren Sebaot.
9 Därför har jag gjort er
föraktade och förnedrade inför allt folket,
eftersom ni inte har hållit er till mina vägar
och tagit hänsyn till människor när ni undervisar.
Folkets trolöshet
10 Har vi inte alla en enda Fader?
Har inte en enda Gud skapat oss?
Varför handlar vi då svekfullt mot varandra
och kränker våra fäders förbund?
11 Juda har handlat svekfullt,
och avskyvärda ting
har bedrivits i Israel och i Jerusalem.
Ty Juda har kränkt det Herren håller heligt,
det som han älskar,
och de har gift sig med kvinnor som dyrkar främmande gudar.
12 Herren skall från Jakobs tält utrota var och en som gör detta,
både hög och låg[a]
och den som bär fram gåvor till Herren Sebaot.
13 Och för det andra gör ni detta:
Ni översköljer Herrens altare med tårar, gråt och klagan,
eftersom han inte längre vill se till offergåvan
eller ta emot något från er hand med glädje.
14 Och ni frågar: "Varför?"
Jo, Herren har varit vittne mellan dig
och din ungdoms hustru.
Du har handlat trolöst mot henne,
fastän hon är din maka,
din hustru som du ingått förbund med.
15 Har inte han gjort dem till ett?
Det som är kvar av ande tillhör honom.
Och varför ett?
Han söker avkomma som hör Gud till.
Så tag vård om er ande
och handla inte trolöst mot er ungdoms hustru.
16 Jag hatar skilsmässa,
säger Herren, Israels Gud,
och att man höljer sig i våld som i en klädnad,
säger Herren Sebaot.
Så tag vård om er ande
och handla inte trolöst.
17 Ni tröttar ut Herren med era ord.
Ni frågar: "På vilket sätt har vi tröttat ut honom?"
Jo, ni säger: "Den som gör det onda
är god i Herrens ögon,
och han gläder sig över dem",
eller: "Var är Gud som dömer?"
Footnotes
- Malaki 2:12 hög och låg Grundtextens innebörd är osäker.
Malachi 2
King James Version
Malachi 2
King James Version
2 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.
5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.
9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
12 The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts.
13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
16 For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
17 Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
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