¹³ And what else are you doing? You cry noisily and flood the Lord's altar with your tears, because he isn't pleased with your offerings and refuses to accept them. ¹⁴ And why isn't God pleased? It's because he knows that each of you men has been unfaithful to the wife you married when you were young. You promised that she would be your partner, but now you have broken that promise. ¹⁵ Didn't God create you and your wife to become like one person?^[a] And why did he do this? It was so you would have children, and then lead them to become God's people. Don't ever be unfaithful to your wife.