New American Standard Bible 2020

Malachi 2:13-16

13And this is 1another thing you do: you cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and sighing, because He 2no longer gives attention to the 3offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. 14Yet you say, “For what reason?” Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the 4wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt 5treacherously, though she is your marriage companion and your wife by covenant. 15 6But not one has 7done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And 8why the one? He was seeking a 9godly offspring. Be careful then about your spirit, and see that none of you deals 10treacherously against the wife of your youth. 16“For 11I hate 12 13divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “and 14him who covers his garment with 15violence,” says the Lord of armies. “So be careful about your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.”

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Notes

1. Malachi 2:13 Lit a second ↩
2. Malachi 2:13 Jer 11:14; 14:12 ↩
3. Malachi 2:13 Or grain offering ↩
4. Malachi 2:14 Is 54:6 ↩
5. Malachi 2:14 Jer 9:2; Mal 3:5 ↩
6. Malachi 2:15 Or Did He not make one, although He had the remnant ↩
7. Malachi 2:15 Gen 2:24; Matt 19:4, 5 ↩
8. Malachi 2:15 Or what did the one do while he was seeking ↩
9. Malachi 2:15 Ruth 4:12; 1 Sam 2:20 ↩
10. Malachi 2:15 Ex 20:14; Lev 20:10 ↩
11. Malachi 2:16 Lit He hates ↩
12. Malachi 2:16 Lit sending away ↩
13. Malachi 2:16 Deut 24:1; Matt 5:31; 19:6-8 ↩
14. Malachi 2:16 Lit he covers ↩
15. Malachi 2:16 Ps 73:6; Is 59:6 ↩

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