Malachi 2:3
Behold, I will destroy unto you the seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your festive offerings; and one shall take you away with it.
Leeser Tanakh
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1 Samuel 2:29Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at my meat-offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation? and [why] honoredst thou thy sons above me, to fatten yourselves with the first of every offering of Israel my people?
1 Kings 14:10Therefore, behold, will I bring evil upon the house of Jerobo'am, and will cut off from Jerobo'am every male, [also] the guarded and fortified in Israel; and I will sweep out after the house of Jerobo'am as one sweepeth away the dung till there be nothing left of it.
Job 20:7Yet when he but turneth round will he vanish for ever; those who have seen him will say, Where is he?
Psalms 83:10(83:11) Who were annihilated at 'En-dor; they became as dung for the ground.
Joel 1:10Wasted is the field, the land mourneth; for wasted is the corn: dried up is the new wine, withered is the oil.
Nahum 3:6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and defile thee, and will render thee a dirt-heap.
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 →