Therefore 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.
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4 additional translationsTherefore 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.
“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
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.
And 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.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentMalachi — The last Old Testament voice — a prophet in dialogue with a community grown cynical about covenant. ‘I am the LORD, I change not.’
- Author
- Malachi (1:1) — whose name means ‘my messenger’; possibly a personal name, possibly a title
- Date
- c. 430 BC, the late post-exilic period (contemporary with Nehemiah's second term)