2:1 And now this commandment is for you, O priests.
众祭司阿,现今这诫命是给你们的。
2:2 If you will not hear and take it to heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of hosts, I will send the curse among you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed I have cursed them already because you have not taken it to heart.
2:3 I will rebuke your seed and spread dung upon your faces, the dung of your feasts; and they will take you away with it.
我必斥责你们的种子,又把粪,就是你们节期祭牲的粪,泼在你们的脸上;人要把你们与粪一同除掉。
2:4 And you will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that My covenant may remain with Levi, says Jehovah of hosts.
你们就知道我传这诫命给你们,使我与利未所立的约,可以常存;这是万军之耶和华说的。
2:5 My covenant was with him as life and peace; and I gave these to him that he might fear; and he did fear Me, and he did stand in awe of My name.
我曾与他立生命和平安的约;我将这两样赐给他,使他心存敬畏;他就敬畏我,惧怕我的名。
2:6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and no wrong was found in his lips; in peace and uprightness he walked with Me, and he turned many away from iniquity.
真理的律法在他口中,他嘴里没有不义;他在平安和正直里与我同行,使多人回头离开罪孽。
2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the mes- senger of Jehovah of hosts.
祭司的嘴当谨守知识,人也当由他口中寻求训诲,因为他是万军之耶和华的使者。
2:8 But you have turned away from the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says Jehovah of hosts.
你们却偏离正道,使许多人在律法上跌倒;你们废弃我与利未所立的约;这是万军之耶和华说的。
2:9 Therefore I also have made you despicable and base before all the people to the same extent that you have not kept My ways but have been respecters of persons in the law.
所以我也使你们在众人面前被藐视,看为下贱,因你们不遵行我的道路,竟在律法上偏袒人。
2:10 Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why are we treacherous, each one to his brother, thus profaning the covenant of our fathers?
2:11 Judah has been treacherous, and an abomination has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of Jehovah, which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
2:12 As regards the man who does this, Jehovah will cut off from the tents of Jacob him who wakes and him who answers and him who offers a sacrifice to Jehovah of hosts.
凡行这事的,无论是叫醒的、答应的、或是献供物给万军之耶和华的,耶和华也必从雅各的帐棚中剪除他。
2:13 And this second thing you do: You cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping and sighing, so that He no longer regards the sacrifice or receives it with pleasure from your hand.
2:14 Yet you say, For what reason? Because Jehovah has been the witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been treacherous; yet she is your companion and your wife of covenant.
2:15 But did He not make them one? And the remnant of the Spirit was His. And why the one? He sought the seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one be treacherous to the wife of his youth.
2:16 For I hate divorce, says Jehovah the God of Israel; and he who does it behaves in violence, says Jehovah of hosts. Take heed then to your spirit, and do not be treacherous.
2:17 You have wearied Jehovah with your words; but you say, How have we wearied Him? By saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and He delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?