Malachi 2:9
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Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
In other translations
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
Hebrew words
וְגַם־vegam-and alsoH1571אֲנִי'aniIH589נָתַתִּיnatatiI have madeH5414אֶתְכֶם'etkhem<obj.> youH853נִבְזִיםnivzimdespisedH959וּשְׁפָלִיםushefalimand lowlyH8217לְכָל־lekholto allH3605הָעָםha'amthe peopleH5971כְּפִיkefiaccording to [the] mouth ofH6310אֲשֶׁר'asherthatH834אֵינְכֶם'einekhemnot youH369שֹׁמְרִיםshomerim[are] keepingH8104אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853דְּרָכַיderakhaiways myH1870וְנֹשְׂאִיםvenose'imand [you are] lifting upH5375פָּנִיםpanimfacesH6440בַּתּוֹרָה׃ פbatorahin <the> instructionH8451
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
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