Malachi 2:1

Contemporary English Version

I, the Lord All-Powerful, have something else to say to you priests.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Therefore, this decree is for you priests:

King James Version (1611)
And now, O yee Priests, this commaundement is for you.

King James Version
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

English Standard Version
"And now, O priests, this command is for you.

New American Standard Bible
"And now, this commandment is for you, the priests.

New Century Version
"Priests, this command is for you.

Amplified Bible
"Now, O priests, this commandment is for you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And now, O ye Priests, this commandement is for you.

Legacy Standard Bible
"And now this commandment is for you, O priests.

Berean Standard Bible
And now this decree is for you, O priests:

Complete Jewish Bible
"Now, cohanim, this command is for you.

Darby Translation
And now, ye priests, this commandment is for you.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Priests, this rule is for you.

George Lamsa Translation
NOW therefore, O priests, this commandment is for you.

Good News Translation
The Lord Almighty says to the priests, "This command is for you:

Lexham English Bible
"And so then, O priests, this command is for you:

Literal Translation
And now, O priests, this command is to you.

American Standard Version
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

Bible in Basic English
And now, O you priests, this order is for you.

Hebrew Names Version
"Now, you Kohanim, this mitzvah is for you.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And now, this commandment is for you, O ye priests.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And now O ye priestes this comaundement is for you.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now, O priests, this commandment is to you.

English Revised Version
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

World English Bible
"Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And now, A! ye preestis, this maundement is to you.

Update Bible Version
And now, O you priests, this commandment is for you.

Webster's Bible Translation
And now, O ye priests, this commandment [is] for you.

New English Translation
"Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

New King James Version
"And now, O priests, this commandment is for you.

New Living Translation
"Listen, you priests—this command is for you!

New Life Bible
"And now, this word is for you, O religious leaders.

New Revised Standard
And now, O priests, this command is for you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, for you, is this charge, O ye priests: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is to you.

Revised Standard Version
"And now, O priests, this command is for you.

Young's Literal Translation
And now, to you [is] this charge, O priests,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And now (o ye prestes) this commaundement toucheth you:

THE MESSAGE
"And now this indictment, you priests! If you refuse to obediently listen, and if you refuse to honor me, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, in worship, then I'll put you under a curse. I'll exchange all your blessings for curses. In fact, the curses are already at work because you're not serious about honoring me. Yes, and the curse will extend to your children. I'm going to plaster your faces with rotting garbage, garbage thrown out from your feasts. That's what you have to look forward to!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And now this commandment is for you, O priests.

Contextual Overview

¹ I, the Lord All-Powerful, have something else to say to you priests. ² You had better take seriously the need to honor my name. Otherwise, when you give a blessing, I will turn it into a curse. In fact, I have already done this, because you haven't taken to heart your duties as priests. ³ I will punish your descendants and rub your faces in the manure from your animal sacrifices, and then be done with you. ⁴ I am telling you this, so I can continue to keep my agreement with your ancestor Levi. ⁵ I blessed him with a full life, as I had promised, and he kept his part of the agreement by honoring me and respecting my name. ⁶ He taught the truth and never told lies, and he led a lot of people to turn from sin, because he obeyed me and lived right. ⁷ You priests should be eager to spread knowledge, and everyone should come to you for instruction, because you speak for me, the Lord All-Powerful. ⁸ But you have turned your backs on me. Your teachings have led others to do sinful things, and you have broken the agreement I made with your ancestor Levi. ⁹ So I caused everyone to hate and despise you, because you disobeyed me and failed to treat all people alike.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Malachi 1:6, Jeremiah 13:13, Lamentations 4:13, Hosea 5:1

Reciprocal: Leviticus 21:1 - Speak Leviticus 21:24 - Aaron 1 Samuel 2:12 - the sons Ezekiel 22:26 - priests Ezekiel 34:7 - General Hosea 4:6 - I will also reject Hosea 4:10 - they shall eat Malachi 3:3 - the sons

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:10
God named the dry ground "Land," and he named the water "Ocean." God looked at what he had done and saw that it was good.

Genesis 2:3
God blessed the seventh day and made it special because on that day he rested from his work.

Genesis 2:4
That's how God created the heavens and the earth. When the Lord God made the heavens and the earth,

Genesis 2:5
no grass or plants were growing anywhere. God had not yet sent any rain, and there was no one to work the land.

Genesis 2:8
The Lord made a garden in a place called Eden, which was in the east, and he put the man there.

Genesis 2:11
The first one is the Pishon River that flows through the land of Havilah,

Genesis 2:13
The second is the Gihon River that winds through Ethiopia.

Exodus 20:11
In six days I made the sky, the earth, the oceans, and everything in them, but on the seventh day I rested. That's why I made the Sabbath a special day that belongs to me.

Exodus 31:17
This day will always serve as a reminder, both to me and to the Israelites, that I made the heavens and the earth in six days, then on the seventh day I rested and relaxed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And now, O ye priests,.... That despised and profaned the name of the Lord; that suffered such corrupt and illegal sacrifices to be brought and offered up:

this commandment [is] for you: of giving glory to the name of God; of taking care of his worship; of teaching the people knowledge, and directing them in the way in which they should walk; as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And now this is My commandment unto you - , not a commandment, which He gave them, but a commandment in regard to them. As God said of old, upon obedience , “I will command My blessing unto you,” so now He would command what should reach them, but a curse. “He returns from the people to the priests, as the fountain of the evil, whose carelessness about things sacred he had rebuked before. Let the priests of the new law hear this rebuke of God, and conceive it dictated to them by the Holy Spirit to hear, from whom God rightly requires greater holiness, and so will punish them more grievously, if careless or scandalous in their office.” All Christians are, in some sense 1 Peter 2:9, “a royal, holy priesthood,” over and above the special “Christian priesthood;” as the Jews, over and above the special priesthood of Aaron, were a Exodus 19:6, “kingdom of priests.” What follows then belongs, in their degree, to them and their duties.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER II

The priests reproved for their unfaithfulness in their office,

for which they are threatened to be deprived of their share of

the sacrifice, (the shoulder,) and rewarded only with ignominy

and ordure, 1-3.

The degeneracy of the order is then complained of, and they are

again threatened, 4-9.

The rest of the chapter reproves the people for marrying

strange and idolatrous women; and multiplying divorces, with

all their consequent distress, in order to make way for such

illicit alliances, 10-17.

See Nehemiah 10:30; Nehemiah 13:27-30, &c.

NOTES ON CHAP. II