Malachi 2

¹And now, O you priests, this order is for you.

²If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.

³See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

⁴And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies.

⁵My agreement with him was on my side life and peace, and I gave them to him; on his side fear, and he had fear of me and gave honour to my name.

⁶True teaching was in his mouth, and no evil was seen on his lips: he was walking with me in peace and righteousness, turning numbers of people away from evil-doing.

⁷For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.

⁸But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.

⁹And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.

¹⁰Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?