Malachi · Unlocked Literal Bible
Malachi 2 Unlocked Literal Bible
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1 Now you priests, this command is for you.
1 AHORA pues, oh sacerdotes, á vosotros es este mandamiento.
2 “If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it on your heart to give honor to my name,” says Yahweh of hosts, “then I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them, because you are not laying my command on your 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 See, I am about to rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the dung from your festivals, and he will take you away 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 You will know that I have sent this command to you, and that my covenant may continue to be with Levi,” says Yahweh of hosts.
4 Y sabréis que yo os envié este mandamiento, para que fuese mi pacto con Leví, ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos.
5 “My covenant with him was life and peace, and I gave them to him; I gave him fear, and he feared me, and he stood in awe of my name.
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 True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness and he turned many 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 For a priest's lips should keep knowledge and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is a messenger of Yahweh of hosts.
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 away from the true path. You have caused many to stumble with respect to the law. You have broken the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of hosts.
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 also, I have made you contemptible and vile before all the people, because you have not kept my ways, but have instead shown partiality with regard to the instruction.”
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 Is there not one father for us all? Has not one God created us? Why are we faithless each man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
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 Judah has been faithless. A disgusting thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy place of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
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 Yahweh cut off from the tents of Jacob the man who does this, the one who is awake and the one who answers, even if he is bringing an offering to Yahweh of hosts.
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 You also do this: You cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping and sighing, because he still does not turn toward the offering or accept it with favor from your hand.
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 But you say, “Why does he not?” Because Yahweh was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have been faithless, even though she was your companion and your wife by covenant.
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 them one, with a portion of his spirit? Then why did he make you one? Because he was seeking an offspring from God. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
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 Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and the one who covers his garment with violence,” says Yahweh of hosts. “So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not be faithless.”
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 wearied Yahweh with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of Yahweh, and he delights in them,” or “Where is the God of 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)