Malachi 2:1-9

21st Century King James Version

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

² If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart to give glory unto My name,” saith the Lord of hosts, “I will even 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 Behold, I will corrupt your seed and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one 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 the Lord of hosts.

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.

⁶ The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and equity, and turned many away from iniquity.

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.

⁸ But ye have departed from the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” saith the Lord of hosts.

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