Malachi 2:3

An Oracle Against The Temple Priesthood

² If you will not listen, if you will 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. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay 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 So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the LORD of hosts.

Appointed Feasts

Before Your Face

Nahum 3:6

I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle.

Exodus 29:14

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

1 Kings 14:10

therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.

Joel 1:17

The seed shrivels under the clods; the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are torn down because the grain has dried up.

1 Samuel 2:29-30

Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?'

2 Kings 9:36-37

When they came back and told him, he said, "This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, 'In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel,

Job 20:7

he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'

Psalm 83:10

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

Jeremiah 8:2

And they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. And they shall not be gathered or buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.

Malachi 2:9

and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction."

Luke 14:35

It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

1 Corinthians 4:13

when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.