Malachi 2:3 “Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your…”

Malachi 2:3

Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the waste from your feasts, and you will be carried off with it.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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 it.

World English Bible

Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

American Standard Version

Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and ye shall be taken away with it.

Geneva Bible 1599

Behold, I wil corrupt your seede, and cast dongue vpon your faces, euen the dongue of your solemne feastes, and you shall be like vnto it.

Darby Translation

Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, the dung of your feasts; and they shall take you away with it.

Young's Literal Translation

Lo, I am pushing away before you the seed, And have scattered dung before your faces, Dung of your festivals, And it hath taken you away with it.

Bible in Basic English

See, 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.

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Cross references

“I will”

Joel 1:17

Joel 1:17 · BSB

The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

“corrupt”

Nahum 3:6 Malachi 2:9 1 Kings 14:10 Job 20:7 Psalm 83:10 Jeremiah 8:2

Nahum 3:6 · BSB

I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.

Malachi 2:9 · BSB

“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.”

1 Kings 14:10 · BSB

Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is…

Job 20:7 · BSB

he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’

Psalm 83:10 · BSB

who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.

Jeremiah 8:2 · BSB

They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on…

Also

Exodus 29:14

Exodus 29:14 · BSB

But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.

4Then you will know that I have sent you this commandment so that My covenant with Levi may continue,” says the LORD of Hosts.

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