Malachi 2:3-5

GOD’S WORD Translation

³ “I’m going to punish your descendants. I’m going to spread excrement on your faces, the excrement from your festival sacrifices. You will be discarded with it. ⁴ Then you will know that I sent you this warning so that my promise ^[a] to Levi will continue,” says the Lord of Armies. ⁵ “I promised Levi life and peace. I gave them to him so that he would respect me. He respected me and stood in awe of my name.