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.


In Context

6 The law of truth hath been in his mouth, And perverseness hath not been found in his lips, In peace and in uprightness he walked with Me, And many he brought back from iniquity.

7 For the lips of a priest preserve knowledge, And law they do seek from his mouth, For a messenger of Jehovah of Hosts he is.

8 And ye, ye have turned from the way, Ye have caused many to stumble in the law, Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

9 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.

10 Have we not all one father? Hath not our God prepared us? Wherefore do we deal treacherously, Each against his brother, To pollute the covenant of our fathers?

11 Dealt treacherously hath Judah, And abomination hath been done in Israel, and in Jerusalem, For polluted hath Judah the holy thing of Jehovah, That He hath 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 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 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.