Malachi:2
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And now ,
O ye priests ,
this commandment is for you .
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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 .
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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 .
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And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you ,
that my covenant might be with Levi ,
saith the LORD of hosts .
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My covenant was with him of life and peace ;
and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me ,
and was afraid before my name .
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The law of truth was in his mouth ,
and iniquity was not found in his lips :
he walked with me in peace and equity ,
and did turn many away from iniquity .
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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 .
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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 the LORD of hosts .
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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 .
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Have we not all one father ?
hath not one God created us ?
why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother ,
by profaning the covenant of our fathers ?
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Judah hath dealt treacherously ,
and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem ;
for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved ,
and hath married the daughter of a strange god .
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The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this ,
the master and the scholar ,
out of the tabernacles of Jacob ,
and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts .
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And this have ye done again ,
covering the altar of the LORD with tears ,
with weeping ,
and with crying out ,
insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more ,
or receiveth it with good will at your hand .
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Yet ye say ,
Wherefore ?
Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth ,
against whom thou hast dealt treacherously :
yet is she thy companion ,
and the wife of thy covenant .
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And did not he make one ?
Yet had he the residue of the spirit .
And wherefore one ?
That he might seek a godly seed .
Therefore take heed to your spirit ,
and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth .
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For the LORD ,
the God of Israel ,
saith that he hateth putting away :
for one covereth violence with his garment ,
saith the LORD of hosts :
therefore take heed to your spirit ,
that ye deal not treacherously .
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Ye have wearied the LORD with your words .
Yet ye say ,
Wherein have we wearied him ?
When ye say ,
Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD ,
and he delighteth in them ;
or ,
Where is the God of judgment ?