1
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
LORD
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
4
And
ye
shall
know
that
I
have
sent
this
commandment
unto
you,
that
my
covenant
might
be
with
Levi,
saith
the
LORD
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
LORD
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
LORD
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
LORD
which
he
loved,
and
hath
married
the
daughter
of
a
strange
god.
12
The
LORD
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
LORD
of
hosts.
13
And
this
have
ye
done
again,
covering
the
altar
of
the
LORD
with
tears,
with
weeping,
and
with
crying
out,
insomuch
that
he
regardeth
not
the
offering
any
more,
or
receiveth
[it]
with
good
will
at
your
hand.
14
Yet
ye
say,
Wherefore?
Because
the
LORD
hath
been
witness
between
thee
and
the
wife
of
thy
youth,
against
whom
thou
hast
dealt
treacherously:
yet
[is]
she
thy
companion,
and
the
wife
of
thy
covenant.
15
And
did
not
he
make
one?
Yet
had
he
the
residue
of
the
spirit.
And
wherefore
one?
That
he
might
seek
a
godly
seed.
Therefore
take
heed
to
your
spirit,
and
let
none
deal
treacherously
against
the
wife
of
his
youth.
16
For
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
saith
that
he
hateth
putting
away:
for
[one]
covereth
violence
with
his
garment,
saith
the
LORD
of
hosts:
therefore
take
heed
to
your
spirit,
that
ye
deal
not
treacherously.
17
Ye
have
wearied
the
LORD
with
your
words.
Yet
ye
say,
Wherein
have
we
wearied
[him]?
When
ye
say,
Every
one
that
doeth
evil
[is]
good
in
the
sight
of
the
LORD,
and
he
delighteth
in
them;
or,
Where
[is]
the
God
of
judgment?