Malachi 2:3-5

New International Version

³ “Because of you I will rebuke your descendants^[a]; I will smear on your faces the dung^(A) from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it.^{(B) 4} And you will know that I have sent you this warning so that my covenant with Levi^(C) may continue,” says the Lord Almighty. ⁵ “My covenant was with him, a covenant^(D) of life and peace,^(E) and I gave them to him; this called for reverence^(F) and he revered me and stood in awe of my name.