If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to givegloryunto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I willevensend a curseupon you, and I willcurseyourblessings: yea, I havecursedthemalready, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we dealtreacherouslyevery man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Judahhathdealttreacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judahhathprofaned the holiness of the LORDwhich he loved, and hathmarried the daughter of a strange god.
The LORDwill cut off the man thatdoeththis, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him thatoffereth an offeringunto the LORD of hosts.
And thishave ye doneagain, covering the altar of the LORDwithtears, withweeping, and withcrying out, insomuchthat he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it withgoodwill at yourhand.
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORDhathbeenwitnessbetweenthee and the wife of thy youth, againstwhomthouhastdealttreacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he mightseek a godlyseed. Thereforetakeheed to yourspirit, and let nonedealtreacherouslyagainst the wife of his youth.
For the LORD, the God of Israel, saiththat he hatethputtingaway: for one coverethviolencewith his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: thereforetakeheed to yourspirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
Ye havewearied the LORDwithyourwords. Yet ye say, Whereinhave we wearied him? When ye say, Every one thatdoethevil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?