Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
New American Standard Bible
“So
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
“So I in turn have made you despised
International Standard Version
"So I also made you despised, humiliating you before all of the people, because you aren't following my ways and are showing partiality when you teach."
American Standard Version
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
Amplified
“So I have also made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality [to people] in [your administration of] the law.”
Bible in Basic English
And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
Darby Translation
And I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have respect of persons in administering the law.
Julia Smith Translation
And also I set you despised and low to all the people, according as ye watch not my way, and lift up the face against the law.
King James 2000
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"And in turn I have made you despised and humbled before all the people, inasmuch as you [are] not keeping my way, but are {favoring your own instruction}."
Modern King James verseion
Therefore I have also made you despised and low before all the people, just as you have not kept My ways but are lifting up faces in the law.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Therefore will I also make you to be despised, and to be of no reputation among all the people: because ye have not kept my ways, but been partial in the law.
NET Bible
"Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your instruction."
New Heart English Bible
"Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore, I also, will suffer you to be despised and of no account unto all the people, - in proportion as none of you have been keeping my ways, but have had respect to persons, in giving your deliverance.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
"Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Malachi 2:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Oracle Against The Temple Priesthood
8 But ye are turned aside out of the way. Ye have caused many to stumble in the law. Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says LORD of hosts. 9 Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law. 10 Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
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Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:17
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment. Ye shall hear the small and the great alike. Ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you ye shall bring to me, and I will hea
1 Samuel 2:30
Therefore LORD, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me forever, but now LORD says, Be it far from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me
1 Kings 22:28
And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, LORD has not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of you.
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of a righteous man is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Jeremiah 28:15-16
Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah. LORD has not sent thee, but thou make this people to trust in a lie.
Jeremiah 29:20-22
Hear ye therefore the word of LORD, all ye of the captivity whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Jeremiah 29:31-32
Send to all those of the captivity, saying, Thus says LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I did not send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie,
Ezekiel 13:12-16
Lo, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the daubing with which ye have daubed it?
Ezekiel 13:21
I will also tear your headdresses, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall no more be in your hand to be hunted. And ye shall know that I am LORD.
Daniel 12:2-3
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Micah 3:6-7
Therefore it shall be night to you, that ye shall have no vision. And it shall be dark to you, that ye shall not divine. And the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.
Malachi 2:3
Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your feasts, and ye shall be taken away with it.
Malachi 2:8
But ye are turned aside out of the way. Ye have caused many to stumble in the law. Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says LORD of hosts.
Matthew 5:21-22
Ye have heard that it was said to them in old times, Thou shall not murder, and whoever murders will be liable to the judgment.
Matthew 5:27-28
Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shall not commit adultery.
Matthew 5:33-37
Again, ye have heard that it was said to them in old times, Thou shall not swear falsely, but shall render to the Lord thine oaths.
Matthew 5:43-44
Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shall love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.
Matthew 19:17-18
And he said to him, Why do thou call me good? There is none good except one, God. But if thou want to enter into life, keep the commandments.
Matthew 23:16-24
Woe to you, ye blind guides, who say, Whoever may swear by the temple, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.
Mark 7:8-14
For having set aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men: washings of pots and cups and many other such like things ye do.
Luke 10:29
But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
Luke 11:42
But woe to you Pharisees! Because ye tithe mint and rue and every plant, and pass by justice and the love of God. It is necessary to do these things, and not to neglect those things.
Luke 20:45-47
And while all the people were listening, he said to his disciples,
Romans 7:7-10
What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.
Galatians 2:6
But from those who were reputed to be something (what kind they were formerly, it makes no difference to me, God does not accept a personage of man), for those who were of repute added nothing to me,