1 “Now, you kahanayam (priests), this matzawah (commandment) is for you.
2 If you will not shamai (hearken / hear), and if you will not shawam (place / establish / appoint) it to lab (heart), to nathan (give) kabawad (glory) to my sham (name),” amar (spoke) Yahawah () of tzabaawath (armies), “then will I shalach (send) the maarah (curse) on you, and I will arar (curse) your barakah (blessings). Indeed, I have arar (cursed) them already, because you shawam (place / establish / appoint) not lay it to lab (heart).
3 Behold, I will gair (rebuke) your zarai (seed), and will zarah (spread) parash (dung) on your panayam (face), even the parash (dung) of your chag (feast/festival); and you will be nashaa (lift) away with it.
4 You yadai (will) know that I have shalach (send) this matzawah (commandment) to you, that my barayath (covenant) may be with Laway (Levi),” amar (spoke) Yahawah () of tzabaawath (armies).
5 “My barayath (covenant) was with him of chay (life) and shalawam (peace / safety); and I nathan (give) them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent panayam (face) me, and stood in awe of my sham (name).
6 The thawarah (Torah / Instruction) of amath (truth) was in his pah (mouth), and iwal (unrighteousness) was not matzaa (found) in his shapah (lips). He halak (move) with me in shalawam (peace / safety) and mayashawar (uprightness), and shawab (turn) many shawab (turn) from iwan (guilt/iniquity).
7 For the kahan (priest) shapathay (lips) should shamar (keep/guard) daith (knowledge), and they should baqash (seek) the thawarah (instruction) at his pah (mouth); for he is the malaak (angel / messenger of Yah) of Yahawah () of tzabaawath (armies).
8 But you have sawar (turned) aside out of the darak (way). You rab (have) caused many to kashal (stumble / stagger) in the thawarah (instruction). You have shachath (corrupted) the barayath (covenant) of Laway (Levi),” amar (spoke) Yahawah () of tzabaawath (armies).
9 “Therefore I nathan (give) also made you bazah (contemptible) and shapal (base) before all the im (nation / people), pah (according) to the way you have not shamar (keep/guard) my darak (ways), but have had nashaa (lift) for persons in the thawarah (Torah / Instruction).
10 Don't we all have achad (one) ab (father)? Hasn't achad (one) Al baraa (created) us? Why do we bagad (deal) treacherously every ayash (man / husband) against his ach (brother/kinsman), chalal (profaning) the barayath (covenant) of our ab (father)?
11 Yahawadah (Judah) has dealt bagad (treacherously), and an thawaibah (abomination) is ishah (make) in Yashar-Al (Israel) and in Yarawashalam (Jerusalem); for Yahawadah (Judah) has chalal (profaned) the qadash (set apart / make holy) of Yahawah () which he ahab (love), and bail (has) married the banath (daughter) of a foreign Al.
12 Yahawah () will karath (cut) off, to the ayash (man / husband) who ishah (make) this, him who iwar (rouse / awaken) and him who inah (answer / respond), out of the ahalay (tents) of Yaiqab (Jacob), and him who nagash (offers) an manachah (offering) to Yahawah () of tzabaawath (armies).
13 This again you ishah (make): you kasah (cover) the mazabach (altar) of Yahawah () with damaih (tears), with bakay (weeping), and with anaqah (sighing), because he doesn't panah (turn) the manachah (offering) any more, neither laqach (take / seize) it with good ratzawan (will) at your yad (hand).
14 Yet you amar (spoke), ‘mah (why)?’ Because Yahawah () has been iwad (admonish/bear witness against) between you and the ayashah (woman / wife) of your naiwar (youth), against whom you have dealt bagad (treacherously), though she is your chabarath (companion), and the ayashah (woman / wife) of your barayath (covenant).
15 Ishah (make) he not make you achad (one), although he had the shaar (residue) of the rawach (spirit / wind)? Why achad (one)? He baqash (sought) a godly zarai (seed). Therefore shamar (keep/guard) heed to your rawach (spirit / wind), and let no one bagad (deal) treacherously against the ayashah (woman / wife) of his naiwar (youth).
16 For I shanaa (hate) divorce”, amar (spoke) Yahawah (), the Alahayam () of Yashar-Al (Israel), “and him who kasah (covers) his labawash (garment) with chamas (violence)!” Amar (spoke) Yahawah () of tzabaawath (armies). “Therefore shamar (keep/guard) heed to your rawach (spirit / wind), that you don't bagad (deal) treacherously.
17 You have yagai (wearied) Yahawah () with your dabar (word / matter). Yet you amar (spoke), ‘How have we yagai (wearied) him?’ In that you amar (spoke), ‘Everyone who ishah (make) rai (evil) is tawab (good / proper function) in the iyan (eye) of Yahawah (), and he chapatz (delights) in them;’ or ‘Where is the Alahayam () of mashapat (justice)?’