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Malachi 2:9

"You don't live the way I told you. You have not accepted my teachings. So I will cause people to hate you and think you are worth nothing."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Minister, Christian;   Thompson Chain Reference - Justice-Injustice;   Partiality;   Social Duties;   The Topic Concordance - Contempt;   Disobedience;   Priests;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Offence;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Malachi;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Excommunication;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Malachi;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Nehemiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people because you are not keeping my ways but are showing partiality in your instruction.”
King James Version (1611)
Therefore haue I also made you contemptible and base before al the people, according as yee haue not kept my wayes, but haue bin partiall in ye law.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction."
New American Standard Bible
"So I also have made you despised and of low reputation in the view of all the people, since you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction."
New Century Version
"You have not been careful to do what I say, but instead you take sides in court cases. So I have caused you to be hated and disgraced in front of everybody."
Amplified Bible
"So I have also made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality [to people] in [your administration of] the law."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore haue I also made you to be despised, and vile before all the people, because yee kept not my wayes, but haue beene partiall in the Lawe.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So I also have made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction.
Legacy Standard Bible
"So I also have made you despised and low before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction.
Berean Standard Bible
"So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law."
Contemporary English Version
So I caused everyone to hate and despise you, because you disobeyed me and failed to treat all people alike.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Therefore I have in turn made you contemptible and vile before all the people, because you did not keep my ways but were partial in applying the Torah."
Darby Translation
And I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have respect of persons in [administering] the law.
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept the ordinances, but have been partial in the law.
Good News Translation
So I, in turn, will make the people of Israel despise you because you do not obey my will, and when you teach my people, you do not treat everyone alike."
Lexham English Bible
"And in turn I have made you despised and humbled before all the people, inasmuch as you are not keeping my way, but are favoring your own instruction."
Literal Translation
So I have also made you despised and low to all the people, just as you have not kept My ways, but are lifting up faces in the Law.
American Standard Version
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
Bible in Basic English
And 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.
Hebrew Names Version
"Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept My ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore haue I also made you despised and vyle before all the people, because you kept not my wayes, but haue ben parciall in the lawe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I have made you despised and cast out among all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
English Revised Version
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
World English Bible
"Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For which thing and Y yaf you worthi to be dispisid, and bowen to alle puplis, as ye kepten not my weies, and token a face in the lawe.
Update Bible Version
Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to as you have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New English Translation
"Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your instruction."
New King James Version
"Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base Before all the people, Because you have not kept My ways But have shown partiality in the law."
New Living Translation
"So I have made you despised and humiliated in the eyes of all the people. For you have not obeyed me but have shown favoritism in the way you carry out my instructions."
New Life Bible
"So I have made you hated and ashamed in front of all the people, for you are not keeping My ways. You have shown favor to certain people when you teach them."
New Revised Standard
and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in your instruction.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore, I also, will suffer you to be despised and of no account unto all the people, - in proportion as none of you have been keeping my ways, but have had respect to persons, in giving your deliverance.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore have I also made you contemptible, and base before all people, as you have not kept my ways, and have accepted persons in the law.
Revised Standard Version
and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in your instruction."
Young's Literal Translation
And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore wil I also make you to be despised, and to be of no reputacion amonge all ye people: because ye haue not kepte my wayes, but bene parciall in the lawe.

Contextual Overview

1 "Priests, this rule is for you. 2 Listen to me! Pay attention to what I say. Show honor to my name. If you don't respect my name, bad things will happen to you. You will say blessings, but they will become curses. I will make bad things happen because you don't show respect for my name." This is what the Lord All-Powerful said. 3 "Look, I will punish your descendants. During the festivals, you priests offer sacrifices to me. You take the dung and inside parts from the dead animals and throw them away. But I will smear the dung on your faces, and you will be thrown away with it! 4 Then you will learn why I am giving you this command. I am telling you these things so that my agreement with Levi will continue." This is what the Lord All-Powerful said. 5 The Lord said, "I made that agreement with Levi. I promised to give him life and peace—and I gave him those things. Levi respected me and showed honor to my name. 6 He taught the true teachings and didn't teach lies. Levi was honest, and he loved peace. He followed me and saved many people from being punished for the evil things they did. 7 A priest should know God's teachings. People should be able to go to a priest and learn God's teachings. A priest should be the Lord 's messenger to the people. 8 "But you priests stopped following me! You used the teachings to make people do wrong. You ruined the agreement with Levi." This is what the Lord All-Powerful said. 9 "You don't live the way I told you. You have not accepted my teachings. So I will cause people to hate you and think you are worth nothing."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

made: Malachi 2:3, 1 Samuel 2:30, Proverbs 10:7, Daniel 12:2, Daniel 12:3, Micah 3:6, Micah 3:7

before: 1 Kings 22:28, Jeremiah 28:15, Jeremiah 28:16, Jeremiah 29:20-22, Jeremiah 29:31, Jeremiah 29:32, Ezekiel 13:12-16, Ezekiel 13:21, Mark 7:13, Mark 7:14, Luke 20:45-47

but: Malachi 2:8, Matthew 5:21, Matthew 5:22, Matthew 5:27, Matthew 5:28, Matthew 5:33-37, Matthew 5:43, Matthew 5:44, Matthew 19:17, Matthew 19:18, Matthew 23:16-24, Mark 7:8-13, Luke 10:29, Luke 11:42, Romans 7:7-10

have been partial in: or, lifted up the face against, Heb. accepted faces. Deuteronomy 1:17, *marg. Galatians 2:6

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 17:11 - According to 2 Kings 5:27 - leprosy 2 Kings 23:9 - the priests Ezra 10:18 - the sons Job 13:8 - General Proverbs 6:35 - regard Proverbs 12:8 - he Isaiah 9:15 - the prophet Lamentations 2:6 - the king Ezekiel 44:12 - they ministered Hosea 4:6 - I will also reject Hosea 4:7 - therefore Nahum 3:6 - make Malachi 1:6 - if then Matthew 5:19 - shall teach Matthew 22:16 - neither Luke 15:15 - to feed 1 Timothy 5:21 - partiality James 2:4 - partial James 3:17 - without

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the East, in a place named Eden. He put the man he made in that garden.
Genesis 2:9
Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.
Genesis 2:17
But you must not eat from the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil. If you eat fruit from that tree, on that day you will certainly die!"
Genesis 3:3
But there is one tree we must not eat from. God told us, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not even touch that tree, or you will die.'"
Deuteronomy 6:25
If we carefully obey the whole law, exactly as the Lord our God told us to, he will say that we have done a very good thing.'
Proverbs 3:18
Wisdom is like a life-giving tree to those who hold on to her; she is a blessing to those who keep her close.
Proverbs 11:30
What good people produce is like a life-giving tree. Those who are wise give new life to others.
Isaiah 44:25
False prophets tell lies, but the Lord shows that their lies are false. He makes fools of those who do magic. He confuses even the wise. They think they know a lot, but he makes them look foolish.
Isaiah 47:10
You do bad things but still feel safe. You say to yourself, ‘No one sees the wrong I do.' You thought that your wisdom and knowledge would save you. You tell yourself, ‘I alone am important, and no one else matters.'
Ezekiel 31:16
I made the tree fall—and the nations shook with fear at the sound of the falling tree. I sent the tree down to the place of death to join the other people who had gone down into that deep hole. In the past, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, drank that water. The trees were comforted in the world below.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base,.... When their city and temple were destroyed by the Romans, and they were carried captive by them, and became a taunt and a proverb in all places where they came:

before all the people; the nations of the world, among whom they were scattered:

according as ye have not kept my ways; neither those which the law directed to, either moral or ceremonial; nor what the Gospel directed to, the ordinances and institutions of Christ, particularly baptism, which the Jews rejected against themselves, Luke 7:30:

but have been partial in the law; in the observance of it, attending to the lesser, and taking no notice of the weightier matters of it, as the Jews are charged by Christ, Matthew 23:23 and in the interpretation of it, restraining its sense only to outward actions, for which they are reproved, Matthew 5:1 or "received faces", or "accepted persons in the law" x; in matters of the law they were concerned in, they had respect to the persons of men, by giving the sense of it, and pronouncing judgment, in favour of some, to the prejudice of others, wrongly.

x ונושאים פנים בתורה "et accepistis faciem in lege", Pagninus; "assumentes facies", Montanus; "suscipitis faciem", Piscator; "accipitis faciem", Cocceius; "et ferentes faciem in lege", Burkius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore have I made you contemptible - They had said in their hearts Malachi 1:7, “The table of the Lord is contemptible.” So God would requite them “measure for measure.” Yet not only so, but in their office as judges, against the repeated protestations in the law Leviticus 19:15, “Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty, in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor Deuteronomy 1:17, ye shall not respect persons in judgment Deuteronomy 16:19, thou shall not wrest judgment,” he says,

Ye have accepted persons in the law - You have interpreted the law differently for rich and poor, or have put it in force against the poor, not against the rich. It would include actual bribery; but there are many more direct offences against equal justice. How differently is the like offence against the eighth commandment visited upon the poor who have real temptation to it, and the rich who have none, but the lust of the eyes!

Crows he condones, vexes the simple dove - That contempt which they cast upon God and His law, by wresting it out of respect to persons, that so they might gain favor and respect from them, so honoring them more than Him, and seeking to please them more than Him, will He cast back on them making them contemptible even in the eyes of those, from whom they thought by that means to find respect.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Malachi 2:9. Therefore have I also made you contemptible — The people despised you because they saw that you acted contrary to your functions. This has happened repeatedly since, to several classes of priests. Not maintaining, by purity of life and soundness of doctrine, the dignity of the ministerial function, they became contemptible before the people; their meager preaching was disregarded, and their persons at last cast out as a general loathing to the universe! See what happened to the truly abominable priesthood of France and Rome 1796-8. They were the sole cause of that infidelity that brought about the revolution. They are now partially restored; and are endeavouring to supply by grimace, paltry superstition, and jesuitical cunning, what they want in purity of morals, soundness of doctrine, and unction from God. They must mend, or look for another revolution. Mankind will no longer put up with the chaff of puerile and fanatical ceremonies in place of the wheat of God's word and worship.


 
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