1Agora pois, ó sacerdotes, este mandamento é para vós. 2Se não o ouvirdes, e se não guardardes no coração de dar glória a meu nome,diz o SENHOR dos exércitos, enviarei maldição sobre vós, e amaldiçoarei vossas bênçãos. Aliás, eu já as tenho amaldiçoado, porque não tendes guardado isso no vosso coração. 3Eis que eu repreenderei a vossa semente, e espalharei lixo sobre os vossos rostos, o lixo de vossas festas, e com ele sereis removidos. 4Então sabereis que eu vos enviei este mandamento, para que meu pacto seja com Levi,diz o SENHOR dos exércitos. 5Meu pacto foi com ele de vida e de paz, as quais eu lhe dei para haver temor; e ele me temeu, e teve medo diante de meu nome. 6A lei de verdade estava em sua boca, e não se achou injustiça em seus lábios; ele andava comigo em paz e em justiça, e converteu a muitos da maldade. 7Porque os lábios do sacerdote devem guardar o conhecimento, e de sua boca devem buscar a lei; porque ele é mensageiro do SENHOR dos exércitos. 8Mas vós vos desviastes do caminho; fizestes tropeçar a muitos na lei; corrompestes o pacto de Levi,diz o SENHOR dos exércitos. 9Por isso eu também vos tornei desprezíveis e indignos diante de todo o povo, visto que não guardais meus caminhos, e na lei fazeis acepção de pessoas. 10Não temos todos um mesmo Pai? Não foi um mesmo Deus que nos criou? Por que, então , traímos cada um a seu irmão, profanando o pacto de nossos pais? 11Judá tem agido com traição, e abominação se comete em Israel e em Jerusalém; porque Judá profana o santuário do SENHOR, o qual ele ama, e se casou com filha de deus estranho. 12O SENHOR removerá das tendas de Jacó ao homem que fizer isto, ao que vela, e ao que responde, e ao que traz oferta ao SENHOR dos exércitos. 13Também fazeis esta segunda coisa: cobris o altar do SENHOR de lágrimas, de pranto, e de gemidos; por isso ele não dará mais atenção à oferta, nem a aceitará com prazer de vossa mão. 14Vós dizeis: Por que razão? Porque o SENHOR foi testemunha entre ti e a mulher de tua juventude, contra a qual tu tens traído, sendo ela a tua companheira, e a mulher de teu pacto. 15E não fez ele somente um ainda que lhe sobre o espírito? E por que um? Para buscar uma descendência de Deus. Guardai-vos pois em vosso espírito, e ninguém de vós seja infiel à mulher de vossa juventude. 16Porque o SENHOR Deus de Israel diz que ele odeia o divórcio, e quem cobre a sua roupa de violência, diz o SENHOR dos exércitos. Guardai-vos pois em vosso espírito, e não sejais infiéis. 17Cansais ao SENHOR com vossas palavras. E ainda dizeis: Em que nós o cansamos? Quando dizeis: Qualquer um que faz o mal é bom aos olhos ao SENHOR, que se agrada deles; ou: Onde está o Deus do juízo?
1“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. 2If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart. 3Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. 4You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies. 5“My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name. 6The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity. 7For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies. 8But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies. 9“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law. 10Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers? 11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. 12Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies. 13This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. 14Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. 15Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 16For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously. 17You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’
1En nu, gij priesters! tot u wordt dit gebod gezonden; 2Indien gij het niet zult horen, en indien gij het niet zult ter harte nemen, om Mijn Naam eer te geven, zegt de HEERE der heirscharen, zo zal Ik den vloek onder u zenden, en Ik zal uw zegeningen vervloeken; ja, Ik heb ook alrede elkeen derzelve vervloekt, omdat gij het niet ter harte neemt. 3Ziet, Ik zal u het zaad verderven; en Ik zal drek op uw aangezichten strooien, den drek uwer feesten, zodat men u met denzelven wegnemen zal. 4Dan zult gij weten, dat Ik dit gebod tot u gezonden heb; opdat Mijn verbond met Levi zij, zegt de HEERE der heirscharen. 5Mijn verbond met hem was het leven, en de vrede; en Ik gaf hem die tot een vreze; en hij vreesde Mij, en hij werd om Mijns Naams wil verschrikt. 6De wet der waarheid was in zijn mond, en er werd geen onrecht in zijn lippen gevonden; hij wandelde met Mij in vrede en in rechtmatigheid, en hij bekeerde er velen van ongerechtigheid. 7Want de lippen der priesters zullen de wetenschap bewaren, en men zal uit zijn mond de wet zoeken; want hij is een engel des HEEREN der heirscharen. 8Maar gij zijt van den weg afgeweken, gij hebt er velen doen struikelen in de wet, gij hebt het verbond met Levi verdorven, zegt de HEERE der heirscharen. 9Daarom heb Ik ook u verachtelijk en onwaard gemaakt voor het ganse volk, dewijl gij Mijn wegen niet houdt, maar het aangezicht aanneemt in de wet. 10Hebben wij niet allen een Vader? Heeft niet een God ons geschapen? Waarom handelen wij dan trouwelooslijk de een tegen den ander, ontheiligende het verbond onzer vaderen? 11Juda handelt trouwelooslijk, en er wordt een gruwel gedaan in Israel, en in Jeruzalem; want Juda ontheiligt de heiligheid des HEEREN, welke Hij liefheeft; want hij heeft de dochters eens vreemden gods getrouwd. 12De HEERE zal den man, die zulks doet, uitroeien uit de hutten van Jakob, dien, die waakt, en dien, die antwoordt, en die den HEERE der heirscharen spijsoffer brengt. 13Dit tweede doet gijlieden ook, dat gij het altaar des HEEREN bedekt met tranen, met wening en met zuchting; zodat Hij niet meer het spijsoffer aanschouwen, noch met welgevallen van uw hand ontvangen wil. 14Gij nu zegt: Waarom? Daarom dat de HEERE een Getuige geweest is, tussen u en tussen de huisvrouw uwer jeugd, met dewelke gij trouwelooslijk handelt; daar zij toch uw gezellin, en de huisvrouw uws verbonds is. 15Heeft Hij niet maar een gemaakt, hoewel Hij des geestes overig had? En waarom maar dien enen? Hij zocht een zaad Gods. Daarom, wacht u met uw geest, en dat niemand trouwelooslijk handele tegen de huisvrouw zijner jeugd. 16Want de HEERE, de God Israels, zegt, dat Hij het verlaten haat, alhoewel hij den wrevel bedekt met Zijn kleed, zegt de HEERE der heirscharen; daarom wacht u met uw geest, dat gij niet trouwelooslijk handelt. 17Gij vermoeit den HEERE met uw woorden; nog zegt gij: Waarmede vermoeien wij Hem? Daarmede, dat gij zegt: Al wie kwaad doet, is goed in de ogen des HEEREN, en Hij heeft lust aan zodanigen; of, waar is de God des oordeels?
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