7. For the priest’s lips keep wisdom, and they seek the law at his mouth; for he is an angel of the Lord of the hosts.
8. But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, said the Lord of the hosts.
9. Therefore I have 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.
10. Have we not all one father? has not one God created us? why do we despise each man his brother by breaking the covenant of our fathers?
11. Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the Lord by loving and marrying the daughter of a strange god.
12. The Lord will cut off the man that does this, the master and the scholar out of the tabernacles of Jacob and him that offers an offering unto the Lord of the hosts.
13. And once again ye shall cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, for I shall not even look at the offering any more to receive a free will offering from your hand.