Malachi 2:1–3

WARNING TO THE PRIESTS

2 “Therefore, this decreez is for you priests: 2 If you don’t listen, and if you don’t take it to heartaa to honor my name,” says the Lord of Armies, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings.ab In fact, I have already begun to curse them because you are not taking it to heart.

3 “Look, I am going to rebuke your descendants,ac and I will spread animal wasteA over your faces, the waste from your festival sacrifices,ad and you will be taken away with it.