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Malachi 2

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1 “And now, O priests, this command is for you. (Mal 1:6; Mal 2:4) 2 If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. (Le 26:14; De 28:15; Ps 69:22; Mal 3:9) 3 Behold, I will rebuke your offspring,[1] and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.[2] (Ex 29:14; Joe 1:17; Na 3:6; Hag 2:17) 4 So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the Lord of hosts. (Nu 3:45; Nu 25:12; Ne 13:29; Mal 2:1; Mal 2:8) 5 My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name. (Le 16:2; Isa 54:10) 6 True instruction[3] was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity. (De 33:10; Da 12:3; Jas 5:20) 7 For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people[4] should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. (Le 10:11; De 17:9) 8 But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts, (1Sa 2:17; Jer 18:15; Eze 22:26; Mal 2:4) 9 and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.” (De 1:17; De 16:19; 1Sa 2:30) 



10 Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers? (Isa 21:2; Isa 24:16; Isa 33:1; Ac 17:26; 1Co 8:6; Eph 4:6) 11 Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. (Ezr 9:2; Mal 2:10) 12 May the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant[5] of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts! (Mal 1:7) 13 And this second thing you do. You cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. (Zec 7:3) 14 But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. (Isa 54:6; Mal 1:2; Mal 2:10; Mal 2:11; Mal 3:5) 15 Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union?[6] And what was the one God[7] seeking?[8] Godly offspring. So guard yourselves[9] in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. (Ge 2:24; Ezr 9:2; Mal 2:10; Mt 19:4) 16 “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her,[10] says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers[11] his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.” (Mal 2:10; Mt 5:32; Mr 10:9; Mr 10:11; Lu 16:18; 1Co 7:10) 



17 You have wearied the Lord with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?” (Isa 5:20; Isa 43:24; Mal 2:14; Mal 3:1; Mal 3:15; 2Pe 3:4) 

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Malachi 2

Nueva Versión Internacional



1 »Ahora, pues, este mandato es para ustedes, los sacerdotes. 2 Si no me hacen caso ni se deciden a honrar mi nombre —dice el Señor Todopoderoso—, les enviaré una maldición, y maldeciré sus bendiciones. Ya las he maldecido, porque ustedes no se han decidido a honrarme. 3 »Por esto, voy a reprender a sus descendientes. Les arrojaré a la cara los desperdicios de los sacrificios de sus fiestas, y los barreré junto con ellos. 4 Entonces sabrán que les he dado este mandato, a fin de que continúe mi pacto con Leví —dice el Señor Todopoderoso—. 5 Mi pacto con él era de vida y paz, y se las di; era también de temor, y él me temió, y mostró ante mí profunda reverencia. 6 En su boca había instrucción fidedigna; en sus labios no se encontraba perversidad. En paz y rectitud caminó conmigo, y apartó del pecado a muchos. 7 »Los labios de un sacerdote atesoran sabiduría, y de su boca los hombres buscan instrucción, porque es mensajero del Señor Todopoderoso. 8 Pero ustedes se han desviado del camino y mediante su instrucción han hecho tropezar a muchos; ustedes han arruinado el pacto con Leví —dice el Señor Todopoderoso—. 9 Por mi parte, yo he hecho que ustedes sean despreciables y viles ante todo el pueblo, porque no han guardado mis caminos sino que han mostrado parcialidad en cuestiones de la ley.» 



10 ¿No tenemos todos un solo Padre? ¿No nos creó un solo Dios? ¿Por qué, pues, profanamos el pacto de nuestros antepasados al traicionarnos unos a otros? 11 Judá ha sido traicionero. En Israel y en Jerusalén se ha cometido algo detestable: al casarse Judá con la hija de un dios extraño, ha profanado el santuario[1] que el Señor ama. 12 En cuanto al hombre que haga eso, quienquiera que sea, que el Señor Todopoderoso lo excluya de los campamentos de Jacob, aun cuando le lleve ofrendas. 13 Otra cosa que ustedes hacen es inundar de lágrimas el altar del Señor; lloran y se lamentan porque él ya no presta atención a sus ofrendas ni las acepta de sus manos con agrado. 14 Y todavía preguntan por qué. Pues porque el Señor actúa como testigo entre ti y la esposa de tu juventud, a la que traicionaste aunque es tu compañera, la esposa de tu pacto.[2] 15 ¿Acaso no hizo el Señor un solo ser, que es cuerpo y espíritu? Y ¿por qué es uno solo? Porque busca descendencia dada por Dios.[3] Así que cuídense ustedes en su propio espíritu, y no traicionen a la esposa de su juventud. 16 «Yo aborrezco el divorcio —dice el Señor, Dios de Israel—, y al que cubre[4] de violencia sus vestiduras», dice el Señor Todopoderoso. Así que cuídense en su espíritu, y no sean traicioneros. 



17 Ustedes han cansado al Señor con sus palabras. Y encima preguntan: «¿En qué lo hemos cansado?» En que dicen: «Todo el que hace lo malo agrada al Señor, y él se complace con ellos»; y murmuran: «¿Dónde está el Dios de justicia?» 

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