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."


In Context

6 True instruction was in his mouth and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many from sin.

7 "For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, and from his mouth men should seek instruction- because he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.

8 But you have turned from the way and by your teaching have caused many to stumble; you have violated the covenant with Levi," says the Lord Almighty.

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."

10 Have we not all one Father ? Did not one God create us? Why do we profane the covenant of our fathers by breaking faith with one another?

11 Judah has broken faith. A detestable thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the Lord loves, by marrying the daughter of a foreign 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:9Therefore 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.

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.