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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Malachi 2:3 - 2:3
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corrupt, etc. - literally, “rebuke,” answering to the opposite prophecy of blessing (Mal 3:11), “I will rebuke the devourer.” To rebuke the seed is to forbid its growing.
your - literally, “for you”; that is, to your hurt.
dung of ... solemn feasts - The dung in the maw of the victims sacrificed on the feast days; the maw was the perquisite of the priests (Deu 18:3), which gives peculiar point to the threat here. You shall get the dung of the maw as your perquisite, instead of the maw.
one shall take you away with it - that is, ye shall be taken away with it; it shall cleave to you wherever ye go [Moore]. Dung shall be thrown on your faces, and ye shall be taken away as dung would be, dung-begrimed as ye shall be (1Ki 14:10; compare Jer 16:4; Jer 22:19).