Malachi 2:3-5

Christian Standard Bible

³ “Look, I am going to rebuke your descendants,^(A) and I will spread animal waste^[a] over your faces, the waste from your festival sacrifices,^(B) and you will be taken away with it. ⁴ Then you will know that I sent you this decree, so that my covenant with Levi^(C) may continue,” says the Lord of Armies. ⁵ “My covenant with him was one of life and peace,^(D) and I gave these to him; it called for reverence, and he revered me and stood in awe of my name.^(E)