¹“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

¹A tak teraz k vám toto prikázanie, vy, kňazi!

²If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

²Ak nebudete poslúchať a keď si toho nevezmete k srdcu, aby ste dali slávu môjmu menu, hovorí Hospodin Zástupov, pošlem na vás zlorečenstvo a budem zlorečiť vašim požehnaniam, a už aj som zlorečil každému z nich, lebo si toho neberiete k srdcu.

³Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

³Hľa, okríknem vám semeno a nakydám lajna na vašu tvár, lajná vašich sviatočných obetí, a odnesú vás k nemu.

⁴You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

⁴A zviete, že som poslal na vás toto prikázanie, aby to bola moja smluva s Lévim, hovorí Hospodin Zástupov.

⁵“My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.

⁵Moja smluva bola s ním, smluva života a pokoja, a dal som mu to na bázeň, a bál sa ma a triasol sa pred mojím menom.

⁶The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

⁶Zákon pravdy bol v jeho ústach, a neprávosť sa nenašla v jeho rtoch, chodil so mnou v pokoji a úprimnosti a odvrátil mnohých od neprávosti.

⁷For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

⁷Lebo rty kňaza majú ostríhať známosť, a zákon naučení budú hľadať z jeho úst! Lebo je poslom Hospodina Zástupov.

⁸But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

⁸Ale vy ste vybočili s cesty a spôsobili ste to, že mnohí klesli v zákone, a porušili ste smluvu Léviho, hovorí Hospodin Zástupov.

⁹“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

⁹Preto som i ja vás vydal, aby ste boli opovrhnutí a nízki všetkému ľudu podľa toho, jako vy neostríhate mojich ciest a hľadíte na osobu v zákone Božom.

¹⁰Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

¹⁰Či azda nemáme všetci jedného a toho istého Otca? Či nás nestvoril jeden a ten istý silný Bôh? Prečo potom robíme neverne každý voči svojmu bratovi, aby sme poškvrňovali smluvu svojich otcov?

¹¹Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

¹¹Zem Júdova robí neverne, a ohavnosť sa deje v Izraelovi i v Jeruzaleme; lebo Júda poškvrnil svätyňu Hospodinovu, ktorú miloval, a vzal si za ženu dcéru cudzieho boha.

¹²Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies.

¹²Hospodin nech vyplieni mužovi, ktorý robí takú vec, toho, kto bdeje, toho, kto, odpovedá, zo stánov Jakobových i toho, kto donáša obetný dar obilný Hospodinovi Zástupov.

¹³This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

¹³A toto už po druhé robíte, že pokrývate oltár Hospodinov slzami, plačom a vzdychaním, takže nebude viac toho, aby pozrel na obetný dar obilný alebo aby vzal ľúbu obeť z vašej ruky.

¹⁴Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

¹⁴A hovoríte: Pre jakú príčinu? Pre takú, že Hospodin je svedkom medzi tebou a medzi ženou tvojej mladosti, voči ktorej si sa ty dopustil nevery, kým je ona tvojou družkou a ženou tvojej smluvy.

¹⁵Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

¹⁵A či neučinil obidvoch jedno? A je aj ostatok ducha jeho. A čo ten jeden? Hľadal semeno Božie. - A tak sa budete chrániť vo svojom duchu, a proti žene svojej mladosti nech sa niktorý nedopustí nevery.

¹⁶For I hate divorce,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

¹⁶Lebo nenávidím rozvodu, hovorí Hospodin, Bôh Izraelov, ako i toho, kto pokrýva ukrutnosťou svoje rúcho, hovorí Hospodin Zástupov. Preto sa chráňte vo svojom duchu a nerobte neverne!

¹⁷You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

¹⁷Unavujete Hospodina svojimi slovami a hovoríte: Čím unavujeme? Tým, že hovoríte: Každý, i ten, kto robí zlé, je dobrý v očiach Hospodinových, a má v nich vo všetkých záľubu, alebo kdeže je vraj Bôh súdu?