Malachi 2:10–16
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Breaking Covenant Through Divorce
10Do we not all have one Fatherb?w Did not one God create us?x Why do we profane the covenanty of our ancestors by being unfaithfulz to one another?
11Judah has been unfaithful. A detestablea thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the Lord lovesb by marryingc women who worship a foreign god.d 12As for the man who does this, whoever he may be, may the Lord removee him from the tents of Jacobcf—even though he brings an offeringg to the Lord Almighty.
13Another thing you do: You flood the Lord’s altar with tears.h You weep and waili because he no longer looks with favorj on your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands.k 14You ask,l “Why?” It is because the Lord is the witnessm between you and the wife of your youth.n You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.o
15Has not the one God made you?p You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.dq So be on your guard,r and do not be unfaithfuls to the wife of your youth.
16“The man who hates and divorces his wife,t” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,”eu says the Lord Almighty.
So be on your guard,v and do not be unfaithful.
Footnotes
- bOr father
- cOr 12May the Lord remove from the tents of Jacob anyone who gives testimony in behalf of the man who does this
- dThe meaning of the Hebrew for the first part of this verse is uncertain.
- eOr “I hate divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “because the man who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,”
Cross references
- wSee Ex 4:22; Mt 5:16; 6:4, 18; Lk 11:2; 1 Co 8:6
- xSee Job 4:17; Isa 43:1
- yEx 19:5; See 2 Ki 17:15; Jer 31:32
- zSee Zep 3:3–4
- aSee Isa 1:13; See 48:8
- bSee Dt 4:37
- cSee Ne 13:23
- dSee Ex 34:16; Jer 3:7–9
- eSee 1 Sa 2:30–33; See Eze 24:21
- fSee Nu 24:5; 2 Sa 20:1
- gSee Mal 1:10
- hSee Jer 11:11
- iPs 39:12
- jPs 66:18; Jer 14:12
- kIsa 58:2
- lSee Mal 1:2
- mSee Ge 21:30; See Jos 24:22
- nSee Pr 5:18
- oSee Eze 16:8; Heb 13:4
- pSee Ge 2:24; Mt 19:4–6
- qSee Dt 14:2; 1 Co 7:14
- rSee Dt 4:15
- sSee Isa 54:6; 1 Co 7:10; Heb 13:4
- tSee Dt 24:1; Mt 5:31–32; 19:4–9; Mk 10:4–5
- uSee Ge 6:11; 34:25; See Pr 4:17; See Isa 58:4
- vPs 51:10
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