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And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you

Prophet Malachi, painted in 1546 at the Stavronikita Monastery on Mount Athos
Prophet Malachi, painted in 1546 at the Stavronikita Monastery on Mount Athos
Prophet Malachi, painted in 1546 at the Stavronikita Monastery on Mount Athos

A great King am I, says the LORD of hosts,
and my Name will be feared among the nations.
And now, O priests, this commandment is for you:
If you do not listen,
if you do not lay it to heart,
to give glory to my name, says the LORD of hosts,
I will send a curse upon you
and of your blessing I will make a curse.
You have turned aside from the way,
and have caused many to falter by your instruction;
you have made void the covenant of Levi,
says the LORD of hosts.
I, therefore, have made you contemptible
and base before all the people,
since you do not keep my ways,
but show partiality in your decisions.
Have we not all the one Father?
Has not the one God created us?
Why then do we break faith with one another,
violating the covenant of our fathers?

— Malachi 1:14b-2:2b, 8-10

“For the day is coming, blazing like an oven,
when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble,
And the day that is coming will set them on fire,
leaving them neither root nor branch, says the Lord of hosts.” — Malachi 3:19

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