Malachi 2:9
World English Bible (WEB)
“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
In context
7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of Armies.
8 But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Armies.
9 “Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
10 Don’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?
11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
Malachi 2:9 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- “Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
- KJV King James Version
- Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “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.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have respect of persons in [administering] the law.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.