Malachi 2
1 and now to(wards) you [the] commandment [the] this [the] priest
And now to you, O ye priests, is this commandment:
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 ye will not hearken, If ye will not lay it to heart, To give glory to my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will 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 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
Behold, I will rebuke your seed, And I will scatter dung in your faces, The dung of your solemn feasts, And ye shall be carried to 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
And ye shall know that I have sent to you this commandment, That my covenant may remain with Levi, Saith Jehovah 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 for life and peace, Which I gave to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, And was afraid before 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 truth and equity, 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 lips of the priest should keep knowledge, And men should seek the law from his mouth; For he is the messenger of Jehovah 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 ye have departed from the way, Ye have caused many to stumble at the law, And ye have made void the covenant with Levi, Saith Jehovah 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 will I also make you Despicable and base before all the people; According as ye have not kept my ways. But have had respect to 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
Have we not all one Father? Hath not one God created us? Why should we deal treacherously one against another, And profane the covenant made with 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 hath dealt treacherously, And an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah hath profaned the holy people of Jehovah, which he loveth, And hath married the daughter of a strange 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
Jehovah will cut off the man that doeth this, Him that waketh and him that answereth, from the tents of Jacob, And him that bringeth an offering to Jehovah 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
And this also ye do: Ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, With weeping and with groans, So that he no more hath regard to the offering, Nor receiveth it with good-will from 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 ye say, “Wherefore?” It is because Jehovah has been a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, Against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully, Although she was thy companion and thy covenanted wife.
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
But did not He make one only? And yet had he a residue of the spirit; And wherefore one? He sought a godly race. Therefore take heed to your spirit, And be not unfaithful to the wife of thy 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 him that putteth away, Saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, And him that covereth his garment with violence, Saith Jehovah of hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and be not unfaithful.
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
Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words; Yet ye say, “Wherein have we wearied him?” In that ye say, “Every one of them that do evil Is good in the sight of Jehovah, And in them he hath delight”; Or, “Where is the God of judgment?”
