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God’s Third Complaint: Against His Priests—Failing to Honor Him

Now this commandment is for you priests: “If you don’t listen, and if you don’t choose[a] to give honor to my name,” says the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, “then I’ll curse both you and your blessings.[b] I’ve even cursed them[c] already, because none of you are taking it to heart. Look! I’m rebuking your descendants because of you, and I’ll spread waste[d] on your faces, the waste of your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 2:2 Lit. don’t set your hearts
  2. Malachi 2:2 Lit. I’ll send on you the curse and I’ll curse your blessings
  3. Malachi 2:2 Lit. it
  4. Malachi 2:3 I.e. the parts of the sacrificial animal that were discarded after the offering had been presented.