Malaquías 2

1 Ahora pues, oh sacerdotes, para ustedes es este Mandamiento.

And now, O you priests, this order is for you.

2 Si no escuchan, ni deciden de corazón dar gloria a mi Nombre, dice Yavé de las huestes, enviaré maldición sobre ustedes y maldeciré sus bendiciones. En verdad, ya las maldije, porque ustedes no las reciben de corazón.

If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.

3 Ciertamente, reprendo su descendencia y echaré estiércol sobre sus caras, el estiércol [de las víctimas] de sus solemnidades. Ustedes mismos serán echados con él.

See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

4 Entonces sabrán que Yo les envié este Mandamiento, para que mi Pacto continúe con Leví, dice Yavé de las huestes.

And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies.

5 Mi Pacto con él era de vida y paz. Se las di y él reverenció mi Nombre.

My agreement with him was on my side life and peace, and I gave them to him; on his side fear, and he had fear of me and gave honour to my name.

6 La Ley de verdad estuvo en su boca, y no había iniquidad en sus labios. En paz y en rectitud anduvo conmigo, y apartó a muchos de su iniquidad.

True teaching was in his mouth, and no evil was seen on his lips: he was walking with me in peace and righteousness, turning numbers of people away from evil-doing.

7 Pues los labios del sacerdote deben guardar la sabiduría, y el pueblo buscará la Ley de su boca, porque él es mensajero de Yavé de las huestes.

For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.

8 Pero ustedes se apartaron del camino, y a muchos hicieron tropezar en la Ley. Corrompieron el Pacto de Leví, dice Yavé de las huestes.

But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.

9 Por tanto, Yo también los hago despreciables y viles ante todo el pueblo, porque ustedes no siguieron mis caminos, y muestran parcialidad en cuanto a la Ley.

And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.

10 ¿No tenemos todos un mismo Padre? ¿No nos creó un mismo ʼElohim? ¿Por qué, pues, nos portamos con deslealtad uno contra otro, y profanamos el Pacto de nuestros antepasados?

Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?

11 Judá fue infiel. En Israel y en Jerusalén se cometió repugnancia, porque Judá profanó el Santuario de Yavé que Él ama, y se casó con la hija de un ʼelohim extraño.

Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.

12 Yavé elimine de las tiendas de Jacob hasta el último hombre que haga esto, tanto al testigo como al defensor y al que presenta una ofrenda a Yavé de las huestes.

The Lord will have the man who does this cut off root and branch out of the tents of Jacob, and him who makes an offering to the Lord of armies.

13 Además ustedes hacen esto: Cubren el altar de Yavé con lágrimas, llanto y gemido, porque ya no miro sus ofrendas, ni las acepto con agrado de su mano.

And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.

14 Ustedes preguntan: ¿Por qué? Porque Yavé fue testigo entre ti y la esposa de tu juventud, a la que fuiste infiel, aunque ella es tu compañera y la esposa de tu pacto.

But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.

15 ¿No hizo Él un solo ser que tiene carne y espíritu? ¿Y qué demanda ese uno? Una descendencia consagrada a ʼElohim. Guárdense, pues, en su espíritu, y no sean desleales con la esposa de su juventud.

... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

16 Porque aborrezco el repudio y al que cubre su ropa con violencia, dice Yavé de las huestes de las huestes. Así que cuiden su espíritu y no sean infieles.

For I am against the putting away of a wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and against him who is clothed with violent acts, says the Lord of armies: so give thought to your spirit and do not be false in your acts.

17 Ustedes fastidian a Yavé con sus palabras y dicen: ¿Cómo lo fastidiamos? Cuando dicen: Todo el que hace mal agrada a Yavé, y de ellos se complace. O dicen: ¿Dónde está el ʼElohim de justicia?

You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?