Malachi 2

1 And now, O you priests, this commandment is for you.

Et nunc ad vos mandatum hoc, o sacerdotes.

2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings: yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

Si nolueritis audire, et si nolueritis ponere super cor ut detis gloriam nomini meo, ait Dominus exercituum: mittam in vos egestatem, et maledicam benedictionibus vestris, et maledicam illis: quoniam non posuistis super cor.

3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

Ecce ego proiiciam vobis brachium, et dispergam super vultum vestrum stercus sollemnitatum vestrarum, et assumet vos secum.

4 And you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant might be with Levi, says the LORD of hosts.

Et scietis quia misi ad vos mandatum istud, ut esset pactum meum cum Levi, dicit Dominus exercituum.

5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me, and was afraid before my name.

Pactum meum fuit cum eo vitæ et pacis: et dedi ei timorem, et timuit me, et a facie nominis mei pavebat.

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.

Lex veritatis fuit in ore eius, et iniquitas non est inventa in labiis eius: in pace, et in æquitate ambulavit mecum, et multos avertit ab iniquitate.

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.

Labia enim sacerdotis custodient scientiam, et legem requirent ex ore eius: quia angelus Domini exercituum est.

8 But you are departed out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.

Vos autem recessistis de via, et scandalizastis plurimos in lege: irritum fecistis pactum Levi, dicit Dominus exercituum.

9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

Propter quod et ego dedi vos contemptibiles, et humiles omnibus populis, sicut non servastis vias meas, et accepistis faciem in lege.

10 Have we not all one father? has not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Numquid non Pater unus omnium nostrum? numquid non Deus unus creavit nos? quare ergo despicit unusquisque nostrum fratrem suum, violans pactum patrum nostrorum?

11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and has married the daughter of a strange god.

Transgressus est Iuda, et abominatio facta est in Israel, et in Ierusalem: quia contaminavit Iudas sanctificationem Domini, quam dilexit, et habuit filiam dei alieni.

12 The LORD will cut off the man that does this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offers an offering to the LORD of hosts.

Disperdet Dominus virum, qui fecerit hoc, magistrum, et discipulum de tabernaculis Iacob, et offerentem munus Domino exercituum.

13 And this have you done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, so that he regards not the offering any more, or receives it with good will at your hand.

Et hoc rursum fecistis, operiebatis lacrymis altare Domini, fletu, et mugitu, ita ut non respiciam ultra ad sacrificium, nec accipiam placabile quid de manu vestra.

14 Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously: yet is she your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

Et dixistis: Quam ob causam? quia Dominus testificatus est inter te, et uxorem pubertatis tuæ, quam tu despexisti: et hæc particeps tua, et uxor fœderis tui.

15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why 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.

Nonne Unus fecit, et residuum spiritus eius est? Et quid unus quærit, nisi semen Dei? Custodite ergo spiritum vestrum, et uxorem adolescentiæ tuæ noli despicere.

16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, says that he hates putting away: for one covers violence with his garment, says the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that you deal not treacherously.

Cum odio habueris, dimitte, dicit Dominus Deus Israel: operiet autem iniquitas vestimentum eius, dicit Dominus exercituum: custodite spiritum vestrum, et nolite despicere.

17 You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, Wherein have we wearied him? When you say, Every one that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

Laborare fecistis Dominum in sermonibus vestris: et dixistis: In quo eum fecimus laborare? In eo quod dicitis: Omnis qui facit malum, bonus est in conspectu Domini, et tales ei placent: aut certe ubi est Deus iudicii?