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# Chapter 2
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1. "And now, O priests, this commandment is for you.
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2. If you will not hear,
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And if you will not take it to heart,
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To give glory to My name,"
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Says the Lord of hosts,
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"I will send a curse upon you,
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And I will curse your blessings.
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Yes, I have cursed them already,
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Because you do not take it to heart.
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3. "Behold, I will rebuke your descendants
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And spread refuse on your faces,
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The refuse of your solemn feasts;
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And one will take you away with it.
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4. Then you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you,
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That My covenant with Levi may continue,"
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Says the Lord of hosts.
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5. "My covenant was with him, one of life and peace,
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And I gave them to him that he might fear Me;
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So he feared Me
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And was reverent before My name.
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6. The law of truth was in his mouth,
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And injustice was not found on his lips.
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He walked with Me in peace and equity,
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And turned many away from iniquity.
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7. "For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge,
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And people should seek the law from his mouth;
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For he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
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8. But you have departed from the way;
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You have caused many to stumble at the law.
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You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,"
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Says the Lord of hosts.
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9. "Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base
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Before all the people,
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Because you have not kept My ways
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But have shown partiality in the law."Treachery of Infidelity
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10. Have we not all one Father?
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Has not one God created us?
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Why do we deal treacherously with one another
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By profaning the covenant of the fathers?
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11. Judah has dealt treacherously,
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And an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem,
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For Judah has profaned
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The Lord's holy institution which He loves:
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He has married the daughter of a foreign god.
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12. May the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob
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The man who does this, being awake and aware,
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Yet who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts!
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13. And this is the second thing you do:
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You cover the altar of the Lord with tears,
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With weeping and crying;
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So He does not regard the offering anymore,
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Nor receive it with goodwill from your hands.
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14. Yet you say, "For what reason?"
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Because the Lord has been witness
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Between you and the wife of your youth,
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With whom you have dealt treacherously;
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Yet she is your companion
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And your wife by covenant.
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15. But did He not make them one,
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Having a remnant of the Spirit?
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And why one?
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He seeks godly offspring.
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Therefore take heed to your spirit,
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And let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth.
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16. "For the Lord God of Israel says
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That He hates divorce,
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For it covers one's garment with violence,"
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Says the Lord of hosts.
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"Therefore take heed to your spirit,
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That you do not deal treacherously."
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17. You have wearied the Lord with your words;
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Yet you say,
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"In what way have we wearied Him?"
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In that you say,
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"Everyone who does evil
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Is good in the sight of the Lord,
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And He delights in them,"
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Or, "Where is the God of justice?"
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