Malachi 2:3

An Oracle Against The Temple Priesthood

² If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name,” says the Lord of hosts, “then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already, because you are not taking it to heart. ³ Behold, I am going to rebuke your offspring, and I will spread refuse on your faces, the refuse of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. ⁴ Then you will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that My covenant may continue with Levi,” says the Lord of hosts.

Appointed Feasts

Before Your Face

Nahum 3:6

“I will throw filth on you
And make you vile,
And set you up as a spectacle.

Exodus 29:14

But the flesh of the bull and its hide and its refuse, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

1 Kings 14:10

therefore behold, I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male person, both bond and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.

Joel 1:17

The seeds shrivel under their clods;
The storehouses are desolate,
The barns are torn down,
For the grain is dried up.

1 Samuel 2:29-30

Why do you kick at My sacrifice and at My offering which I have commanded in My dwelling, and honor your sons above Me, by making yourselves fat with the choicest of every offering of My people Israel?’

2 Kings 9:36-37

Therefore they returned 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 property of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel;

Job 20:7

He perishes forever like his refuse;
Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

Psalm 83:10

Who were destroyed at En-dor,
Who became as dung for the ground.

Jeremiah 8:2

They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have gone after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried; they will be as dung on the face of the ground.

Malachi 2:9

“So I also have made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction.

Luke 14:35

It is useless either for the soil or for the manure pile; it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

1 Corinthians 4:13

when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.