Rotherham(i)
1 Now, therefore, for you, is this charge, O ye priests:––
2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my Name, saith Yahweh of hosts, then will I send among you the curse, and will curse your blessings,––and indeed I have cursed them, because ye are not at all laying it to heart.
3 Behold me! threatening, on your account, the seed, and I will scatter refuse upon your faces, the refuse of your festivals,––and one shall carry you away unto it;
4 So shall ye know that I sent unto you this charge,––as being my covenant with Levi, saith Yahweh of hosts.
5 My covenant, was with him, Life and Well–being, so I gave them to him––[I] as One to be revered–– and he did revere me,–– and, before my Name, dismayed, was he.
6 The deliverance of truth, was in his mouth, and, perverseness, was not found in his lips,–– In well–doing and in uprightness, walked he with me, and, multitudes, did he turn from iniquity.
7 For, the lips of a priest, should keep knowledge, and, a deliverance, should men seek at his mouth,–– for, the messenger of Yahweh of hosts, he is.
8 But, ye, have departed out of the way, ye have caused multitudes to stumble at the deliverance,–– ye have violated the covenant of Levi, saith Yahweh of hosts.
9 Therefore, I also, will suffer you to be despised and of no account unto all the people,––in proportion as none of you have been keeping my ways, but have had respect to persons, in giving your deliverance.