Malachi 2:3-5

Good News Translation

³ I will punish your children and rub your faces in the dung of the animals you sacrifice—and you will be taken out to the dung heap. ^4 (A)Then you will know that I have given you this command, so that my covenant with the priests, the descendants of Levi, will not be broken.

^5 (B)“In my covenant I promised them life and well-being, and this is what I gave them, so that they might respect me. In those days they did respect and fear me.