现在，众祭司啊，这诫命是给你们的。
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
2万军之耶和华说：“你们若不听，若不放在心上，将荣耀归给我的名，我就使诅咒临到你们，使你们的福分变为诅咒；其实我已经诅咒了你们的福分，因你们不把诫命放在心上。If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
3看哪，我要斥责你们的后裔，把粪抹在你们脸上，就是你们祭牲☛“祭牲”：原文是“节期”。的粪。人要把你们和粪一起抬出去，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.
4你们就知道我颁这诫命给你们，使我与利未所立的约可以常存。这是万军之耶和华说的。And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
5我曾与他立生命和平安的约。我将这两样赐给他，使他存敬畏的心；他就敬畏我，惧怕我的名。My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
6真实的训诲在他口中，他的嘴唇中没有不义。他以平安和正直与我同行，使许多人回转离开罪孽。The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
7祭司的嘴唇当守护知识，人也当从他口中寻求训诲，因为他是万军之耶和华的使者。For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
8你们却偏离正道，使许多人在这训诲上绊跌。你们破坏了我与利未人所立的约。这是万军之耶和华说的。But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
9所以我使你们被众百姓藐视，看为卑贱；因你们不遵守我的道，在律法上看人的情面☛“在律法上看人的情面”或译“你们的训诲没有使人得福”。。”Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
百姓对神不忠
10我们岂不都有一位父吗？岂不是一位神创造了我们吗？为何互相行诡诈，亵渎了神与我们列祖所立的约呢？Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
11犹大行事诡诈，在以色列和耶路撒冷中行了可憎的事；因为犹大亵渎耶和华所喜爱的圣殿，娶外邦神明的女子为妻。Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
12凡做这事的，无论是清醒的☛“清醒的”或译“看守的”。或回应的，即使献供物给万军之耶和华，耶和华也要将他从雅各的帐棚中剪除。The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.
13你们又再做这样的事，使哭泣和叹息的眼泪遮盖耶和华的祭坛，以致耶和华不再理会那供物，也不喜欢从你们的手中收纳。And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
14你们还说：“这是为什么呢？”因为耶和华在你和你年轻时所娶的妻之间作证。她虽是你的配偶，你誓约☛“誓约”与“配偶”的希伯来话发音相近。的妻，你却背弃她。Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
15一个人如果还剩下一点灵性，他不会这么做。这人在寻找什么呢？神的后裔！☛“一个人...后裔！”或译“神有灵的余力，不是只能单造一人。为何只造一人呢？乃是愿人得神的子孙。”当谨守你们的灵性，谁也不可背弃年轻时所娶的妻。And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
16耶和华－以色列的神说：“我恨恶休妻的事和衣服外面披上暴力的人。所以当谨守你们的心，不可行诡诈。这是万军之耶和华说的。”For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
审判之日已近
17你们用言语使耶和华厌烦，却说：“我们在何事上使他厌烦呢？”因为你们说：“凡行恶的，耶和华看为善，并且喜爱他们；”又说：“公平的神在哪里呢？”Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?