1. “Listen, you priests—this command is for you!
2. Listen to me and make up your minds to honor my name,” says the lord of Heaven’s Armies, “or I will bring a terrible curse against you. I will curse even the blessings you receive. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you have not taken my warning to heart.
3. I will punish your descendants and splatter your faces with the manure from your festival sacrifices, and I will throw you on the manure pile.
4. Then at last you will know it was I who sent you this warning so that my covenant with the Levites can continue,” says the lord of Heaven’s Armies.