Malachi 2:3

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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 And I will cast abominable filth upon you, and make you vile, and will set you as a spectacle.
  • 1 Kgs 14:10 : 10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him who urinates against the wall, and him who is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man takes away dung, until it is all gone.
  • Exod 29:14 : 14 But the flesh of the bull, with its skin and its offal, you shall burn with fire outside the camp: it is a sin offering.
  • Joel 1:17 : 17 The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.
  • 1 Sam 2:29-30 : 29 Why do you scorn my sacrifice and my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people? 30 Therefore the LORD God of Israel says, I did indeed say that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now the LORD says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
  • 2 Kgs 9:36-37 : 36 Therefore they came back and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the plot of Jezreel dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel: 37 And the body of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the plot of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
  • Job 20:7 : 7 Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, Where is he?
  • Ps 83:10 : 10 Who perished at Endor: they became as dung for the ground.
  • Jer 8:2 : 2 And they will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, whom they have served, after whom they have walked, whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped. They will not be gathered nor buried; they will be dung upon the face of the earth.
  • Mal 2:9 : 9 Therefore, I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways but have been partial in the law.
  • Luke 14:35 : 35 It is neither fit for the land, nor for the manure pile; but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
  • 1 Cor 4:13 : 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

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    74%

    17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like refuse.

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    74%

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    74%

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    73%

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    2 And they will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, whom they have served, after whom they have walked, whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped. They will not be gathered nor buried; they will be dung upon the face of the earth.

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    73%

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    73%

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    73%

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    72%

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    72%

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    72%

    22 You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstrual cloth; you shall say to it, Be gone.

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    72%

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    72%

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    71%

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    22 So that the LORD could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore your land is a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

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