Malachi 2:2

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Malachi 2:2

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Summary

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.

Ye will not hear

If ye will not lay

Isaiah 42:25

Isaiah 47:7

Isaiah 57:11

To give

And i

I have cursed

Malachi 3:9

General references

Leviticus 26:14

Deuteronomy 28:17

Malachi 3:9

Bible References

Ye will not hear

But if you do not give ear to me, and do not keep all these my laws;

But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you:

But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods:

But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.

Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.

This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.

But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.

And the Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you have not given attention and your ear has not been open to give hearing;

And so the Lord has said, You have not given ear to me and undertaken publicly, every man to let loose his countryman and his neighbour: see, I undertake to let loose against you the sword and disease and need of food; and I will send you wandering among all the kingdoms of the earth.

But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.

And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.

But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

If ye will not lay

For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart.

And you said, I will be a queen for ever: you did not give attention to these things, and did not keep in mind what would come after.

And of whom were you in fear, so that you were false, and did not keep me in mind, or give thought to it? Have I not been quiet, keeping myself secret, and so you were not in fear of me?

To give

And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give glory and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel; give me word now of what you have done, and keep nothing back from me.

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

Have not any of them come back to give glory to God, but only this one from a strange land?

If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.

Saying with a loud voice, Have fear of God and give him glory; because the hour of his judging is come; and give worship to him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of water.

And men were burned with great heat: and they said evil things against the name of the God who has authority over these punishments; and they were not turned from their evil ways to give him glory.

And i

You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field.

Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

When he is judged, let the decision go against him; and may his prayer become sin.

Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.

As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.

Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.

But Jesus, turning to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, let not your weeping be for me, but for yourselves and for your children.

I have cursed

You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.

General references

But if you do not give ear to me, and do not keep all these my laws;

A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.