Malachi 2 Free Bible Version
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1 Now this command is for you priests!
1 AHORA pues, oh sacerdotes, á vosotros es este mandamiento.
2 If you will not listen and if you will not take it to heart to honor me, says the Lord Almighty, then I will place a curse on you and I will curse your blessings—in fact I have already cursed them because you haven't taken what I said to heart.
2 Si no oyereis, y si no acordareis dar gloria á mi nombre, ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos, enviaré maldición sobre vosotros, y maldeciré vuestras bendiciones; y aun las he maldecido, porque no lo ponéis en vuestro corazón.
3 Watch out! I am going to penalize your descendants. I will spread manure on your faces from the animals you sacrifice, the manure from your religious festivals, and you will be thrown out with it.
3 He aquí, yo os daño la sementera, y esparciré el estiércol sobre vuestros rostros, el estiércol de vuestras solemnidades, y con él seréis removidos.
4 Then you will know that I sent you this command so that my agreement with Levi can continue, says the Lord Almighty.
4 Y sabréis que yo os envié este mandamiento, para que fuese mi pacto con Leví, ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos.
5 My agreement with him was one of life and peace, which I gave to him, and respect—he respected me. He stood in awe of me.
5 Mi pacto fué con él de vida y de paz, las cuales cosas yo le dí por el temor; porque me temió, y delante de mi nombre estuvo humillado.
6 He taught the people the truth; nothing in his teaching was false. He walked with me in peace and did what was right, and he helped many to turn away from sin.
6 La ley de verdad estuvo en su boca, é iniquidad no fué hallada en sus labios: en paz y en justicia anduvo conmigo, y á muchos hizo apartar de la iniquidad.
7 A priest should explain the truth about God, they should go to him to be taught, for he is the Lord Almighty's messenger.
7 Porque los labios de los sacerdotes han de guardar la sabiduría, y de su boca buscarán la ley; porque mensajero es de Jehová de los ejércitos.
8 But you have turned from my way. You have made many people to fall into sin. By your teaching you have broken the agreement with Levi, says the Lord Almighty.
8 Mas vosotros os habéis apartado del camino; habéis hecho tropezar á muchos en la ley; habéis corrompido el pacto de Leví, dice Jehová de los ejércitos.
9 So I have destroyed any respect you had, and humiliated you before all the people. For you have not kept my ways, and have shown favoritism in what you teach.
9 Por tanto, yo también os torné viles y bajos á todo el pueblo, según que vosotros no habéis guardado mis caminos, y en la ley tenéis acepción de personas.
10 Don't we all have one Father? Didn't one God create us? So why are we unfaithful to each other, violating the agreement made by our forefathers?
10 ¿No tenemos todos un [mismo] padre? ¿No nos ha criado un [mismo] Dios? ¿Por qué menospreciaremos cada uno á su hermano, quebrantando el pacto de nuestros padres?
11 The people of Judah have been unfaithful and have committed a disgusting sin in Israel and Jerusalem. For the men of Judah have defiled the Lord's Temple (which he loves) by marrying women who worship idols.
11 Prevaricó Judá, y en Israel y en Jerusalem ha sido cometida abominación; porque Judá ha profanado la santidad de Jehová que amó, y casádose con hija de dios extraño.
12 May the Lord expel the family of any man who does this from the nation of Israel! May there be no one left to bring an offering to the Lord Almighty!
12 Jehová talará de las tiendas de Jacob al hombre que hiciere esto, al que vela, y al que responde, y al que ofrece presente á Jehová de los ejércitos.
13 Something else you do is to pour out your tears on the Lord's altar weeping and moaning because he no longer pays attention to your offerings or doesn't want to accept them.
13 Y esta otra vez haréis cubrir el altar de Jehová de lágrimas, de llanto, y de clamor; así que no miraré más á presente, para aceptarlo con gusto de vuestra mano.
14 “Why not?” you ask. Because the Lord witnessed the vows you and your wife exchanged when you were young. You were unfaithful to her, your wife and partner joined to you by marriage contract.
14 Mas diréis: ¿Por qué? Porque Jehová ha atestiguado entre ti y la mujer de tu mocedad, contra la cual tú has sido desleal, siendo ella tu compañera, y la mujer de tu pacto.
15 Did he not make you one, and give some of his Spirit to you? And what does he want? Children of God. So watch what you do, and don't be unfaithful to the wife you married when you were young.
15 Pues qué ¿no hizo él uno [solo] aunque tenía la abundancia del espíritu? ¿Y por qué uno? Para que procurara una simiente de Dios. Guardaos pues en vuestros espíritus, y contra la mujer de vuestra mocedad no seáis desleales.
16 For I hate divorce, says the Lord God of Israel, for it's a violent attack on the wife, says the Lord Almighty. So watch what you do, and don't be unfaithful.
16 Porque Jehová Dios de Israel ha dicho que él aborrece que sea repudiada; y cubra la iniquidad con su vestido, dijo Jehová de los ejércitos. Guardaos pues en vuestros espíritus, y no seáis desleales.
17 You have worn the Lord out with your words. “How have we worn him out?” you ask. By saying everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord and he is happy with them, or by asking, where is the Lord's justice?
17 Habéis hecho cansar á Jehová con vuestras palabras. Y diréis: ¿En qué le hemos cansado? Cuando decís: Cualquiera que mal hace agrada á Jehová, y en los tales toma contentamiento: de otra manera, ¿dónde está el Dios de juicio?
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Hosea 5:1; Jeremiah 13:13; Malachi 1:6; Lamentations 4:13
- 2 Luke 17:18; Revelation 14:7; Psalm 81:11–12; Psalm 69:22; 1 Peter 4:11
- 3 Nahum 3:6; Malachi 2:9; Joel 1:17; 1 Kings 14:10; Exodus 29:14
- 4 Numbers 3:12; Ezekiel 38:23; Ezekiel 44:9–16; Luke 10:11; Matthew 3:12
- 5 Numbers 25:12–13; Ezekiel 37:26; Ezekiel 34:25; Numbers 16:9–10; Exodus 32:26–29
- 6 Daniel 12:3; 2 Timothy 2:15–16; Revelation 14:5; Jeremiah 23:22; James 5:19–20
- 7 2 Timothy 2:24–25; Leviticus 10:11; Deuteronomy 21:5; 2 Corinthians 5:20; 1 Thessalonians 4:8
- 8 Nehemiah 13:29; Jeremiah 18:15; Jeremiah 17:5; Ezekiel 44:10; Isaiah 30:11
- 9 Deuteronomy 1:17; 1 Samuel 2:30; Luke 11:42; Galatians 2:6; Matthew 19:17–18
- 10 Psalm 100:3; Malachi 2:11; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Ephesians 4:6; Isaiah 63:16
- 11 2 Corinthians 6:14–18; Ezra 9:1–2; 1 Kings 11:1–8; Deuteronomy 7:3–6; Nehemiah 13:23–29
- 12 Malachi 2:10; Ezra 10:18–19; 1 Samuel 15:22–23; Leviticus 20:3; Numbers 15:30–31
- 13 Isaiah 1:11–15; Jeremiah 14:12; Psalm 78:34–37; 2 Samuel 13:19–20; Deuteronomy 15:9
- 14 Malachi 2:15; Ecclesiastes 9:9; Isaiah 54:6; Genesis 31:50; Malachi 3:5
- 15 Matthew 19:4–6; Mark 10:6–8; Malachi 2:14; Genesis 2:20–24; Genesis 1:27
- 16 Matthew 19:3–9; Matthew 5:31–32; Mark 10:2–12; Luke 16:18; Proverbs 28:13
- 17 Isaiah 43:24; 2 Peter 3:3–4; Zephaniah 1:12; Isaiah 30:18; Ecclesiastes 8:11
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For the Priest's lips shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at His mouth: for He is the Angel of the Lord Almighty." Nor is it to be wondered at that Christ Jesus is called the Angel of the Almighty God.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Touching whom also the prophet saith, "Ye covered my altar with tears." Christ is not willing to be fed by covetousness, He accepts not this food.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
For he had previously cited some similar expressions of those who said, "Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and such are pleasing to Him." It was, I say, by understanding the law of Moses carnally that they had come to murmur thus against God.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)