Malachi 2:3
Behold, I will cast the shoulder to you, and I will scatter upon your face the dung of your solemnities, and it shall take you away with it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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1 Samuel 2:29Why have you kicked away my victims, and my gifts which I commanded to be offered in the temple: and thou hast rather honoured thy sons than me, to eat the firstfruits of every sacrifice of my people Israel?
1 Kings 14:10Therefore behold I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut of from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel: and I will sweep away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be clean.
Job 20:7In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?
Psalms 83:10Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson.
Joel 1:10The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.
Nahum 3:6And I will cast abominations upon thee, and will disgrace thee, and will make an example of thee.
Matthew Henry on Malachi 2:2-10
The Office of the Priesthood; Charge against the Priests; The Priests Censured and Threatened. ( b. c. 400.) 1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. 3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts;… Read the whole commentary →