Corrupt Priests
And if you will not take it to heart,
To give glory to My name,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“I will send a curse upon you,
And I will curse your blessings.
Yes, I have cursed them balready,
Because you do not take it to heart.
And spread arefuse on your faces,
The refuse of your solemn feasts;
And one will btake you away with it.
That My covenant with Levi may continue,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
And I gave them to him bthat he might fear Me;
So he feared Me
And was reverent before My name.
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Malachi 2:3
corrupt, etc.—literally, "rebuke," answering to the opposite prophecy of blessing (Malachi 3:11), "I will rebuke the devourer." To rebuke the seed is to forbid its growing.
your—literally, "for you"; that is, to your hurt.
dung of . . . solemn feasts—The dung in the maw of the victims sacrificed on the feast days; the maw was the perquisite of the priests (Deuteronomy 18:3), which gives peculiar point to the threat here. You shall get the dung of the maw as your perquisite, instead of the maw.
one shall take you away with it—that is, ye shall be taken away with it; it shall cleave to you wherever ye go [MOORE]. Dung shall be thrown on your faces, and ye shall be taken away as dung would be, dung-begrimed as ye shall be (I Kings 14:10; compare Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 22:19).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Malachi 2:3:
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