Malachi 2:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

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Referenced Verses

  • Nah 3:6 : 6 I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all.
  • 1 Kgs 14:10 : 10 So I will send evil on the line of Jeroboam, cutting off from his family every male child, those who are shut up and those who go free in Israel; the family of Jeroboam will be brushed away like a man brushing away waste till it is all gone.
  • Exod 29:14 : 14 But the flesh of the ox and its skin and its waste parts are to be burned outside the circle of the tents, for it is a sin-offering.
  • Joel 1:17 : 17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.
  • 1 Sam 2:29-30 : 29 Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people? 30 For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.
  • 2 Kgs 9:36-37 : 36 So they came back and gave him word of it. And he said, This is what the Lord said by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the heritage of Jezreel the flesh of Jezebel will become food for dogs; 37 And the dead body of Jezebel will be like waste dropped on the face of the earth in the heritage of Jezreel; so that they will not be able to say, This is Jezebel.
  • Job 20:7 : 7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
  • Ps 83:10 : 10 Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.
  • Jer 8:2 : 2 And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.
  • Mal 2:9 : 9 And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
  • Luke 14:35 : 35 It is no good for the land or for the place of waste; no one has a use for it. He who has ears, let him give ear.
  • 1 Cor 4:13 : 13 When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.

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  • Mal 2:2
    80%

    2 If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.

  • Nah 3:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5 See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your skirts pulled over your face, and let the nations see you unclothed, and the kingdoms your shame.

    6 I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all.

  • Mal 2:4
    75%

    4 And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies.

  • Mal 1:12-14
    3 verses
    74%

    12 But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.

    13 And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.

    14 A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.

  • Jer 2:7
    74%

    7 And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.

  • Lev 26:16-17
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    74%

    16 This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

    17 And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.

  • Zeph 1:17
    74%

    17 And I will send trouble on men so that they will go about like the blind, because they have done evil against the Lord: and their blood will be drained out like dust, and their strength like waste.

  • Ezek 22:15
    74%

    15 And I will send you in flight among the nations and wandering among the countries; and I will completely take away out of you everything which is unclean.

  • Ezek 4:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12 And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.

    13 And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.

  • Jer 13:26
    73%

    26 So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.

  • Jer 8:2
    73%

    2 And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.

  • Jer 23:40
    73%

    40 And I will give you a name without honour for ever, and unending shame which will never go from the memory of men.

  • Deut 28:20
    73%

    20 The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me.

  • Lev 26:29-31
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    73%

    29 Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

    30 And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

    31 And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;

  • Mal 1:7
    73%

    7 You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value.

  • Nah 1:14
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    14 The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil.

  • Ezek 4:15
    72%

    15 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's waste in place of man's waste, and you will make your bread ready on it.

  • Amos 2:7
    72%

    7 Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

  • Hag 2:17
    72%

    17 And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.

  • Lev 26:33
    72%

    33 And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.

  • Isa 30:22
    72%

    22 And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!

  • Deut 28:18
    72%

    18 A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

  • Jer 24:9
    72%

    9 I will give them up to be a cause of fear and of trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth; to be a name of shame and common talk and a cutting word and a curse in all the places wherever I will send them wandering.

  • Mic 2:3-4
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    71%

    3 For this cause the Lord has said, See, against this family I am purposing an evil from which you will not be able to take your necks away, and you will be weighted down by it; for it is an evil time.

    4 In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.

  • Deut 28:24
    71%

    24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

  • Isa 43:28
    71%

    28 Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.

  • Mal 2:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.

    9 And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.

  • Jer 29:18
    71%

    18 I will go after them, attacking them with the sword and with need of food and with disease, and will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a wonder and a surprise and a name of shame among all the nations where I have sent them:

  • Jer 44:22
    71%

    22 And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    71%

    20 Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.

  • Isa 65:7
    71%

    7 For their sins and the sins of their fathers, who were burning perfumes on the mountains, and saying evil things against me on the hills: so I will take the measure of their sins, and will send the punishment for them into their breast.

  • Ezek 5:14
    71%

    14 And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.

  • Mic 3:12
    71%

    12 For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

  • Mic 2:10
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    10 Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.

  • Jer 17:3-4
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    3 I will give your wealth and all your stores to be taken away in war without a price, because of your sins in every part of your land.

    4 And your hand will have to let go your heritage which I gave you; and I will make you a servant to your haters in a land which is strange to you: for you have put my wrath on fire with a flame which will go on burning for ever.

  • Jer 16:18
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    18 And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.

  • Jer 9:22
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    22 The bodies of men will be falling like waste on the open fields, and like grain dropped by the grain-cutter, and no one will take them up.

  • Amos 4:2-3
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    70%

    2 The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks.

    3 And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.

  • Deut 28:63
    70%

    63 And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage.