Malachi 2:3

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Behold, I will rebuke your descendants and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your feasts, and it will be carried away with you.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Behold, I will rebuke{H1605} your seed,{H2233} and will spread{H2219} dung{H6569} upon your faces,{H6440} even the dung{H6569} of your feasts;{H2282} and ye shall be taken away{H5375} with it.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Behold, I will corrupt{H1605}{(H8802)} your seed{H2233}, and spread{H2219}{(H8765)} dung{H6569} upon your faces{H6440}, even the dung{H6569} of your solemn feasts{H2282}; and one shall take you away{H5375}{(H8804)} with it.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Beholde, I shal corruppe youre sede, and cast donge in youre faces: euen the donge of youre solempne feastes and it shal cleue fast vpon you.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Behold, I wil corrupt your seede, and cast dongue vpon your faces, euen the dongue of your solemne feastes, and you shall be like vnto it.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Beholde, I wyll corrupt your seede, and cast doung on your faces, euen the doung of your solempne feastes, & you shalbe like vnto it.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, [even] the dung of your solemn feasts; and [one] shall take you away with it.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Lo, I am pushing away before you the seed, And have scattered dung before your faces, Dung of your festivals, And it hath taken you away with it.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and ye shall be taken away with it.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and ye shall be taken away with it.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    I am about to discipline your children and will spread offal on your faces, the very offal produced at your festivals, and you will be carried away along with it.

Referenced Verses

  • Nah 3:6 : 6 I will throw filth on you, treat you with contempt, and make you a spectacle.
  • 1 Kgs 14:10 : 10 Therefore, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off every male in Jeroboam’s family, whether slave or free in Israel. I will sweep away the house of Jeroboam as one sweeps away dung until it is gone.
  • Exod 29:14 : 14 But burn the flesh of the bull, its hide, and its refuse outside the camp. It is a sin offering.
  • Joel 1:17 : 17 The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.
  • 1 Sam 2:29-30 : 29 Why do you scorn My sacrifice and offering that I commanded for My dwelling? Why do you honor your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves on the best of all the offerings of My people Israel? 30 Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: I certainly said that your house and your father’s house would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For those who honor Me I will honor, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
  • 2 Kgs 9:36-37 : 36 They went back and told Jehu, who said, 'This is the word of the LORD that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: “In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour the flesh of Jezebel.”' 37 'Jezebel’s body will be like dung on the field in the plot of land at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, “This is Jezebel.”'
  • Job 20:7 : 7 he will perish forever like his own waste; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'
  • Ps 83:10 : 10 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,
  • Jer 8:2 : 2 They will spread them out before the sun, the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they loved, served, followed, sought, and worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried but will be like dung on the surface of the ground.
  • Mal 2:9 : 9 So I have also 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.
  • Luke 14:35 : 35 It is no longer fit for the soil or the manure pile; it is thrown out. Let anyone who has ears to hear listen.
  • 1 Cor 4:13 : 13 When we are slandered, we respond gently. We have become like the scum of the earth, the refuse of all, even until now.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    80%

    2 If you do not listen and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name, says the Lord of Hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not take it to heart.

  • Nah 3:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5 Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts. I will lift up your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness and the kingdoms your shame.

    6 I will throw filth on you, treat you with contempt, and make you a spectacle.

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    4 Then you will know that I have sent this command to you so that My covenant with Levi may continue, says the Lord of Hosts.

  • Mal 1:12-14
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    74%

    12 But you profane it by saying, 'The LORD's table is defiled, and its food is contemptible.'

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  • Jer 2:7
    74%

    7 I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its bounty. But you came and defiled my land. You made my inheritance detestable.

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    16 I, in turn, will do this to you: I will bring sudden terror upon you, wasting diseases and fever that destroy your eyes and drain your strength. You will plant your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

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  • Zeph 1:17
    74%

    17 I will bring distress on mankind, and they will walk like the blind because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

  • Ezek 22:15
    74%

    15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you throughout the lands, and I will cleanse you from your impurity.

  • Ezek 4:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12 Eat it as you would a barley cake, baking it over human dung in their sight.

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  • Jer 13:26
    73%

    26 So I will expose your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.

  • Jer 8:2
    73%

    2 They will spread them out before the sun, the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they loved, served, followed, sought, and worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried but will be like dung on the surface of the ground.

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    73%

    40 I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame that will never be forgotten.

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    73%

    20 The LORD will send curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil of your deeds, by which you have forsaken Me.

  • Lev 26:29-31
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    73%

    29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

    30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and my soul will reject you.

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    73%

    7 By presenting defiled food on my altar. But you ask, 'How have we defiled you?' By saying, 'The LORD's table is contemptible.'

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    72%

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    72%

    33 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you. Your land will be desolate and your cities will lie in ruins.

  • Isa 30:22
    72%

    22 Then you will defile your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, 'Away with you!'

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    72%

    18 Cursed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your land, the offspring of your cattle, and the increase of your flocks.

  • Jer 24:9
    72%

    9 I will make them a horror and an object of calamity among all the kingdoms of the earth—a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I drive them.

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    2 verses
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    71%

    24 The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed.

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    71%

    28 So I will disgrace the officials of the sanctuary, and deliver Jacob to destruction and Israel to scorn.

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    2 verses
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    8 But you have turned aside from the way, and by your teaching have caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant with Levi, says the Lord of Hosts.

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    71%

    18 I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse and an object of astonishment, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations where I have banished them.

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    71%

    22 Because the LORD could no longer endure the wickedness of your actions and the detestable things you committed, your land became a ruin, a desolation, and a curse, without inhabitants, as it is today.

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    71%

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    7 Your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors together,' says the LORD, 'because they burned incense on the mountains and reproached me on the hills; I will measure their former deeds into their laps.'

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    14 I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

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    10 Get up and leave, for this is not your resting place! Because it is defiled, it brings destruction—a grievous destruction.

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    2 The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: 'Indeed, the days are coming upon you when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.'

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    70%

    63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so it will please Him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.