Malachi 2:11-13

The Voice

¹¹ First of all, Judah has acted deceitfully, and an atrocity has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem because Judah has soiled the holy place of the Eternal One—His earthly throne which He loves—by marrying a daughter of a foreign god, by joining pagan families and worshiping pagan goddesses. ¹² May the Eternal One cut off from His community among the tents of Jacob the man who does this—the one stirring, answering,^[a] and presenting a grain offering to the Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies. ¹³ And this is a second thing you do: you cover the altar of the Eternal One not with the blood of perfect sacrifices but with your own tears, weeping and groaning as if you were worshiping other gods because He does not accept the grain offering you present or receive it with delight.