Malachi 2:1-9

Darby Translation

2 And now, ye priests, this commandment is for you.

² If ye do not hear, and if ye do not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will even send the curse among you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have already cursed them, because ye do not lay [it] to heart.

³ Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, the dung of your feasts; and they 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 Jehovah of hosts.

⁵ My covenant with him was of life and peace, and I gave them to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and trembled before my name.

⁶ 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 he turned many from iniquity.

⁷ For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and at his mouth they seek the law; for he is the messenger of Jehovah 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 Jehovah of hosts.

⁹ And I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have respect of persons in [administering] the law.