Malachi 2

1 and now to(wards) you [the] commandment [the] this [the] priest

"Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

2 if not to hear: hear and if not to set: consider upon heart to/for to give: give glory to/for name my to say LORD Hosts and to send: depart in/on/with you [obj] [the] curse and to curse [obj] blessing your and also to curse her for nothing you to set: consider upon heart

If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says the LORD of hosts, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

3 look! I to rebuke to/for you [obj] [the] seed: children and to scatter refuse upon face your refuse feast your and to lift: bear [obj] you to(wards) him

Look, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

4 and to know for to send: depart to(wards) you [obj] [the] commandment [the] this to/for to be covenant my with Levi to say LORD Hosts

You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says the LORD of hosts.

5 covenant my to be with him [the] life and [the] peace and to give: give them to/for him fear and to fear: revere me and from face: because name my to to be dismayed he/she/it

"My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.

6 instruction truth: true to be in/on/with lip his and injustice not to find in/on/with lips his in/on/with peace and in/on/with plain to go: walk with me and many to return: repent from iniquity: crime

The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

7 for lips priest to keep: guard knowledge and instruction to seek from lip his for messenger LORD Hosts he/she/it

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 and you(m. p.) to turn aside: turn aside from [the] way: conduct to stumble many in/on/with instruction to ruin covenant [the] Levi to say LORD Hosts

But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says the LORD of hosts.

9 and also I to give: make [obj] you to despise and low to/for all [the] people like/as lip: according which nothing you to keep: obey [obj] way: conduct my and to lift: kindness face: kindness in/on/with instruction

"Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

10 not father one to/for all our not God one to create us why? to act treacherously man: anyone in/on/with brother: compatriot his to/for to profane/begin: profane covenant father our

Do we not all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

11 to act treacherously Judah and abomination to make in/on/with Israel and in/on/with Jerusalem for to profane/begin: profane Judah holiness LORD which to love: lover and rule: to marry daughter god foreign

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 loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

12 to cut: eliminate LORD to/for man which to make: do her to rouse and to answer from tent Jacob and to approach: bring offering to/for LORD Hosts

The LORD will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to the LORD of hosts.

13 and this second to make: do to cover tears [obj] altar LORD weeping and groaning from nothing still to turn to(wards) [the] offering and to/for to take: recieve acceptance from hand: power your

This again you do: you cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

14 and to say upon what? upon for LORD to testify between you and between woman: wife youth your which you(m. s.) to act treacherously in/on/with her and he/she/it consort your and woman: wife covenant your

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

15 and not one to make and remnant spirit to/for him and what? [the] one to seek seed: children God and to keep: guard in/on/with spirit your and in/on/with woman: wife youth your not to act treacherously

Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

16 for to hate to send: divorce to say LORD God Israel and to cover violence upon clothing his to say LORD Hosts and to keep: guard in/on/with spirit your and not to act treacherously

For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence." says the LORD of hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.

17 be weary/toil LORD in/on/with word your and to say in/on/with what? be weary/toil in/on/with to say you all to make: do bad: evil pleasant in/on/with eye: seeing LORD and in/on/with them he/she/it to delight in or where? God [the] justice

You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'