Parallel Verses
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.
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."
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.
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.
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
Nathan
Bazah
Peh
Shamar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Malachi 2:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Oracle Against The Temple Priesthood
8 But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Armies. 9 "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. 10 Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:17
You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.
1 Samuel 2:30
"Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.' But now Yahweh says, 'Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
1 Kings 22:28
Micaiah said, "If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me." He said, "Listen, all you people!"
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Jeremiah 28:15-16
Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.
Jeremiah 29:20-22
Hear therefore the word of Yahweh, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Jeremiah 29:31-32
Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn't send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie;
Ezekiel 13:12-16
Behold, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?
Ezekiel 13:21
Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Daniel 12:2-3
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 night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
Malachi 2:3
Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
Malachi 2:8
But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.
Matthew 5:21-22
"You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'
Matthew 5:27-28
"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery;'
Matthew 5:33-37
"Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,'
Matthew 5:43-44
"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'
Matthew 19:17-18
He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
Matthew 23:16-24
"Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.'
Mark 7:8-14
"For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men -- the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things."
Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"
Luke 11:42
But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
Luke 20:45-47
In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,
Romans 7:7-10
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
Galatians 2:6
But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to man) -- they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,