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offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the L
ORD
of hosts.
9
And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by
your means: will he regard your persons? saith the L
ORD
of hosts.
10
Who
is there
even among you
that would shut the doors
for nought?
neither do ye kindle
fire
on mine altar for nought. I have no
pleasure in you, saith the L
ORD
of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
11
For from
the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name
shall be
great among the
Gentiles; and in every place incense
shall be
offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my
name
shall be
great among the heathen, saith the L
ORD
of hosts.
12
But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the L
ORD
is
polluted; and the fruit thereof,
even
his meat,
is
contemptible.
13
Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness
is it!
and ye have snuffed
at it, saith the L
ORD
of hosts; and ye brought
that which was
torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus
ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the L
ORD
.
14
But cursed
be
the
deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the L
ORD
a corrupt thing:
for I
am
a great King, saith the L
ORD
of hosts, and my name
is
dreadful among the heathen.
CHAPTER 2
And now, O ye priests, this commandment
is
for you.
2
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay
it
to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the L
ORD
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.
3
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.
4
And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment
unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the L
ORD
of hosts.
5
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.
6
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.
7
For the priest’s lips
should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he
is
the messenger of the
L
ORD
of hosts.
8
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 L
ORD
of hosts.
9
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.
10
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?
11
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem;
for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the L
ORD
which he loved, and hath married the daughter of
a strange god.
12
The L
ORD
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 L
ORD
of hosts.
13
And this have
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