Malachi 2:2 Cross References - YLT

² If ye hearken not, and if ye lay it not to heart, To give honour to My name, said Jehovah of Hosts, I have sent against you the curse, And I have cursed your blessings, Yea, I have also cursed it, Because ye are not laying it to heart.

¹⁴ `And if ye do not hearken to Me, and do not all these commands; <sup>15</sup> and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands—to your breaking My covenant— <sup>16</sup> I also do this to you, and I have appointed over you trouble, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and your seed in vain ye have sowed, and your enemies have eaten it; <sup>17</sup> and I have set My face against you, and ye have been smitten before your enemies; and those hating you have ruled over you, and ye have fled, and there is none pursuing you. <sup>18</sup> `And if unto these ye hearken not to Me, —then I have added to chastise you seven times for your sins; ¹⁹ and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass; ²⁰ and consumed hath been your strength in vain, and your land doth not give her produce, and the tree of the land doth not give its fruit. ²¹ `And if ye walk with Me in opposition, and are not willing to hearken to Me, then I have added to you a plague seven times, according to your sins, <sup>22</sup> and sent against you the beast of the field, and it hath bereaved you; and I have cut off your cattle, and have made you few, and your ways have been desolate. <sup>23</sup> `And if by these ye are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me in opposition, ²⁴ then I have walked—I also—with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins; ²⁵ and I have brought in on you a sword, executing the vengeance of a covenant; and ye have been gathered unto your cities, and I have sent pestilence into your midst, and ye have been given into the hand of an enemy. ²⁶ `In My breaking to you the staff of bread, then ten women have baked your bread in one oven, and have given back your bread by weight; and ye have eaten, and are not satisfied. <sup>27</sup> `And if for this ye hearken not to Me, and have walked with Me in opposition, ²⁸ then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins. ²⁹ `And ye have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do eat. <sup>30</sup> And I have destroyed your high places, and cut down your images, and have put your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and My soul hath loathed you; <sup>31</sup> and I have made your cities a waste, and have made desolate your sanctuaries, and I smell not at your sweet fragrances; <sup>32</sup> and I have made desolate the land, and your enemies, who are dwelling in it, have been astonished at it. <sup>33</sup> And you I scatter among nations, and have drawn out after you a sword, and your land hath been a desolation, and your cities are a waste. <sup>34</sup> `Then doth the land enjoy its sabbaths—all the days of the desolation, and ye in the land of your enemies—then doth the land rest, and hath enjoyed its sabbaths; ³⁵ all the days of the desolation it resteth that which it hath not rested in your sabbaths in your dwelling on it. ³⁶ `And those who are left of you—I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled—flight from a sword—and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing. <sup>37</sup> And they have stumbled one on another, as from the face of a sword, and there is none pursuing, and ye have no standing before your enemies, <sup>38</sup> and ye have perished among the nations, and the land of your enemies hath consumed you. <sup>39</sup> `And those who are left of you—they consume away in their iniquity, in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers, with them they consume away.
⁴⁰ `And—they have confessed their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also, that they have walked with Me, in opposition, <sup>41</sup> also I walk to them in opposition, and have brought them into the land of their enemies—or then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity, — <sup>42</sup> then I have remembered My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham I remember, and the land I remember. <sup>43</sup> `And—the land is left of them, and doth enjoy its sabbaths, in the desolation without them, and they accept the punishment of their iniquity, because, even because, against My judgments they have kicked, and My statutes hath their soul loathed, ⁴⁴ and also even this, in their being in the land of their enemies, I have not rejected them, nor have I loathed them, to consume them, to break My covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God; — ⁴⁵ then I have remembered for them the covenant of the ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations to become their God; I am Jehovah.' ⁴⁶ These are the statutes, and the judgments, and the laws, which Jehovah hath given between Him and the sons of Israel, in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

¹⁵ `And it hath been, if thou dost not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God to observe to do all His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day, that all these revilings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee: <sup>16</sup> `Cursed art thou in the city, and cursed art thou in the field. ¹⁷ `Cursed is thy basket and thy kneading-trough. <sup>18</sup> `Cursed is the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock. ¹⁹ `Cursed art thou in thy coming in, and cursed art thou in thy going out. <sup>20</sup> `Jehovah doth send on thee the curse, the trouble, and the rebuke, in every putting forth of thy hand which thou dost, till thou art destroyed, and till thou perish hastily, because of the evil of thy doings by which thou hast forsaken Me. ²¹ `Jehovah doth cause to cleave to thee the pestilence, till He consume thee from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it. <sup>22</sup> `Jehovah doth smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with extreme burning, and with sword, and with blasting, and with mildew, and they have pursued thee till thou perish ²³ `And thy heavens which are over thy head have been brass, and the earth which is under thee iron; <sup>24</sup> Jehovah giveth the rain of thy land—dust and ashes; from the heavens it cometh down on thee till thou art destroyed. <sup>25</sup> `Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth; ²⁶ and thy carcase hath been for food to every fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and there is none causing trembling. ²⁷ `Jehovah doth smite thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and with emerods, and with scurvy, and with itch, of which thou art not able to be healed. <sup>28</sup> `Jehovah doth smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart; ²⁹ and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour. ³⁰ `A woman thou dost betroth, and another man doth lie with her; a house thou dost build, and dost not dwell in it; a vineyard thou dost plant, and dost not make it common; <sup>31</sup> thine ox is slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou dost not eat of it; thine ass is taken violently away from before thee, and it is not given back to thee; thy sheep are given to thine enemies, and there is no saviour for thee. <sup>32</sup> `Thy sons and thy daughters are given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God! ³³ The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days; ³⁴ and thou hast been mad, because of the sight of thine eyes which thou dost see. ³⁵ `Jehovah doth smite thee with an evil ulcer, on the knees, and on the legs (of which thou art not able to be healed), from the sole of thy foot even unto thy crown. <sup>36</sup> `Jehovah doth cause thee to go, and thy king whom thou raisest up over thee, unto a nation which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers, and thou hast served there other gods, wood and stone; ³⁷ and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee. ³⁸ `Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it; <sup>39</sup> vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it; <sup>40</sup> olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off. <sup>41</sup> `Sons and daughters thou dost beget, and they are not with thee, for they go into captivity; ⁴² all thy trees and the fruit of thy ground doth the locust possess; ⁴³ the sojourner who is in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low; ⁴⁴ he doth lend to thee, and thou dost not lend to him; he is for head, and thou art for tail.
⁴⁵ `And come upon thee have all these curses, and they have pursued thee, and overtaken thee, till thou art destroyed, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep His commands, and His statutes, which he hath commanded thee; <sup>46</sup> and they have been on thee for a sign and for a wonder, also on thy seed—to the age. <sup>47</sup> `Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things— ⁴⁸ thou hast served thine enemies, whom Jehovah sendeth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and he hath put a yoke of iron on thy neck, till He hath destroyed thee. ⁴⁹ `Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard, <sup>50</sup> a nation—fierce of countenance—which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour; <sup>51</sup> and it hath eaten the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, till thou art destroyed; which leaveth not to thee corn, new wine, and oil, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock, till it hath destroyed thee. <sup>52</sup> `And it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, till thy walls come down, the high and the fenced ones in which thou art trusting, in all thy land; yea, it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee; ⁵³ and thou hast eaten the fruit of thy body, flesh of thy sons and thy daughters (whom Jehovah thy God hath given to thee), in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemies do straiten thee. ⁵⁴ `The man who is tender in thee, and who is very delicate—his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaveth, <sup>55</sup> against giving to one of them of the flesh of his sons whom he eateth, because he hath nothing left to him, in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee in all thy gates. <sup>56</sup> `The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness—her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter, ⁵⁷ and against her seed which cometh out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she doth bear, for she doth eat them for the lacking of all things in secret, in the siege and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee within thy gates. ⁵⁸ `If thou dost not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honoured and fearful name—Jehovah thy God— <sup>59</sup> then hath Jehovah made wonderful thy strokes, and the strokes of thy seed—great strokes, and stedfast, and evil sicknesses, and stedfast. <sup>60</sup> `And He hath brought back on thee all the diseases of Egypt, of the presence of which thou hast been afraid, and they have cleaved to thee; ⁶¹ also every sickness and every stroke which is not written in the book of this law; Jehovah doth cause them to go up upon thee till thou art destroyed, ⁶² and ye have been left with few men, instead of which ye have been as stars of the heavens for multitude, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God. ⁶³ `And it hath been, as Jehovah hath rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so doth Jehovah rejoice over you to destroy you, and to lay you waste; and ye have been pulled away from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it; <sup>64</sup> and Jehovah hath scattered thee among all the peoples, from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth; and thou hast served there other gods which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers—wood and stone. <sup>65</sup> `And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul; ⁶⁶ and thy life hath been hanging in suspense before thee, and thou hast been afraid by night and by day, and dost not believe in thy life; ⁶⁷ in the morning thou sayest, O that it were evening! and in the evening thou sayest, O that it were morning! from the fear of thy heart, with which thou art afraid, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou seest. ⁶⁸ `And Jehovah hath brought thee back to Egypt with ships, by a way of which I said to thee, Thou dost not add any more to see it, and ye have sold yourselves there to thine enemies, for men-servants and for maid-servants, and there is no buyer.'

¹⁷ `And if thy heart doth turn, and thou dost not hearken, and hast been driven away, and hast bowed thyself to other gods, and served them, ¹⁸ I have declared to you this day, that ye do certainly perish, ye do not prolong days on the ground which thou art passing over the Jordan to go in thither to possess it.

¹⁹ And Joshua saith unto Achan, `My son, put, I pray thee, honour on Jehovah, God of Israel, and give to Him thanks, and declare, I pray thee, to me, what thou hast done—hide not from me.'

²² Their table before them is for a snare, And for a recompence—for a trap.

¹¹ But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me. ¹² And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

⁷ In his being judged, he goeth forth wicked, And his prayer is for sin. ⁸ His days are few, his oversight another taketh, ⁹ His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places. ¹¹ An exactor layeth a snare for all that he hath, And strangers spoil his labour. ¹² He hath none to extend kindness, Nor is there one showing favour to his orphans. ¹³ His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out. ¹⁴ The iniquity of his fathers Is remembered unto Jehovah, And the sin of his mother is not blotted out. ¹⁵ They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.

⁸ No, go in, write it on a tablet with them, And on a book engrave it, And it is for a latter day, for a witness unto the age, ⁹ That a rebellious people is this, sons—liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah. ¹⁰ Who have said to seers, `Ye do not see,' And to prophets, `Ye do not prophesy to us Straightforward things, Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits, ¹¹ Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.' ¹² Therefore, thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because of your kicking against this word, And ye trust in oppression, And perverseness, and rely on it, ¹³ Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.

²⁵ And He poureth on him fury, His anger, and the strength of battle, And it setteth him on fire round about, And he hath not known, And it burneth against him, and he layeth it not to heart!

⁷ And thou sayest, `To the age I am mistress,' While thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, Thou hast not remembered the latter end of it.

¹¹ And of whom hast thou been afraid, and fearest, That thou liest, and Me hast not remembered? Thou hast not laid it to thy heart, Am not I silent, even from of old? And Me thou fearest not?

¹⁶ Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where is this—the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.' <sup>17</sup> And I have raised up for you watchmen, Attend ye to the voice of the trumpet. And they say, `We do not attend.'
¹⁸ Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O company, That which is upon them. ¹⁹ Hear, O earth, lo, I am bringing evil on this people, The fruit of their devices, For to My words they gave no attention, And My law—they kick against it. ²⁰ Why is this to Me? frankincense from Sheba cometh, And the sweet cane from a land afar off, Your burnt-offerings are not for acceptance, And your sacrifices have not been sweet to Me.

¹⁶ Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed it for thick darkness. ¹⁷ And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive.

⁴ And Jehovah hath sent unto you all His servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, and ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear, saying: ⁵ `Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell on the ground that Jehovah hath given to you and to your fathers from age unto age, <sup>6</sup> And ye do not go after other gods to serve them, and to bow yourselves to them, nor do ye provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I do no evil to you; <sup>7</sup> And ye have not hearkened unto Me—an affirmation of Jehovah—so as to provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands for evil to you.
<sup>8</sup> `Therefore thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Because that ye have not obeyed My words, ⁹ Lo, I am sending, and have taken all the families of the north—an affirmation of Jehovah—even unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and have brought them in against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and have devoted them, and appointed them for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for wastes age-during.

¹⁷ `Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Ye have not hearkened unto Me to proclaim freedom, each to his brother, and each to his neighbour; lo, I am proclaiming to you liberty—an affirmation of Jehovah—unto the sword, unto the pestilence, and unto the famine, and I have given you for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth.

⁷ but the house of Israel are not willing to hearken unto thee, for they are not willing to hearken unto Me, for all the house of Israel are brazen-faced and strong-hearted.

⁷ According to their abundance so they sinned against Me, Their honour into shame I change. ⁸ The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul. ⁹ And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it. ¹⁰ And they have eaten, and are not satisfied, They have gone a-whoring, and increase not, For they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.

¹¹ Ephraim is as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception. ¹² For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless—without man, Surely also, woe to them, when I turn aside from them. ¹³ Ephraim! when I have looked to the rock, Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim is to bring out unto a slayer his sons. ¹⁴ Give to them, Jehovah—what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

⁶ Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.

⁹ Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought it home, and I blew on it, Wherefore? —an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running—each to his house,

¹⁶ From that time one hath come to a heap of twenty, And it hath been ten, He hath come unto the wine-fat to draw out fifty purahs, And it hath been twenty. ¹⁷ I have smitten you with blasting, And with mildew, and with hail—All the work of your hands, And there is none of you with Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

³ And thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, turn back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I turn back unto you, said Jehovah of Hosts. ⁴ Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me—an affirmation of Jehovah. ⁵ Your fathers—where are they? And the prophets—to the age do they live? ⁶ Only, My words, and My statutes, That I commanded My servants the prophets, Have they not overtaken your fathers, And they turn back and say: As Jehovah of Hosts designed to do to us, According to our ways, and according to our doings, So He hath done to us?'

¹¹ And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing. ¹² And their heart they have made adamant, Against hearing the law, and the words, That Jehovah of Hosts sent by His Spirit, By the hand of the former prophets, And their is great wrath from Jehovah of Hosts. ¹³ And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah of Hosts. ¹⁴ And I toss them on all the nations, That they have not known, The land hath been desolate behind them, Of any passing by and turning back, And they set a desirable land for a desolation!

⁹ With a curse ye are cursed! And Me ye are deceiving—this nation—all of it.

¹⁸ There were not found who did turn back to give glory to God, except this alien;'

²⁸ and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children; ²⁹ for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck; ³⁰ then they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us; —

¹¹ if any one doth speak—`as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister—`as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power—to the ages of the ages. Amen.

⁷ saying in a great voice, `Fear ye God, and give to Him glory, because come did the hour of His judgment, and bow ye before Him who did make the heaven, and the land, and sea, and fountains of waters.'

⁹ and men were scorched with great heat, and they did speak evil of the name of God, who hath authority over these plagues, and they did not reform—to give to Him glory.