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Moreover, I have made you despised and humiliated in the view of all the people,
        since none of you keep my ways
            or show respect for Instruction.

Judah’s dishonesty

10 Isn’t there one father for all of us,
    one God who created us?
Why does everyone cheat each other
    to make the covenant
        of our ancestors impure?
11 Judah cheated—
        a detestable thing was done in Israel and Jerusalem.
    Judah made the Lord’s holy place impure, which God loved,
        and married the daughter of a foreign god.

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“So I have caused you to be despised(A) and humiliated(B) before all the people, because you have not followed my ways but have shown partiality(C) in matters of the law.”(D)

Breaking Covenant Through Divorce

10 Do we not all have one Father[a]?(E) Did not one God create us?(F) Why do we profane the covenant(G) of our ancestors by being unfaithful(H) to one another?

11 Judah has been unfaithful. A detestable(I) thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the Lord loves(J) by marrying(K) women who worship a foreign god.(L)

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 2:10 Or father