9Therefore have I also made you contemptible, and base before all people, as you have not kept my ways, and have accepted persons in the law.


In Context

6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace, and in equity, and turned many away from iniquity.

7 For the lips of the priest shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts.

8 But you have departed out of the way, and have caused many to stumble at the law: you have made void the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible, and base before all people, as you have not kept my ways, and have accepted persons in the law.

10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers?

11 Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange God.

Malachi 2:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:9Therefore 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:9"So I have caused you to be despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not followed my ways but have shown partiality in matters of the law."

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:9Therefore 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9And 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:9Therefore 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9Therefore 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9|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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9And 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:9Therefore 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.