Malachi 2

2 ¹Now, una priest dem, dis command na for una.

²If una no go listen, or take am for heart to honor my name, na so di Papa wey get di army for heaven talk, I go send curse come una and curse una blessing dem. I don already curse dem, because una no dey take am for heart. ³I go rebuke una pikin dem and rub shit for una face—di shit of una feast dem—and dem go carry una comot with am. ⁴Den una go know say na me send dis command to una, so my Covenant with Levi go stand, na so di Papa wey get di army for heaven talk. ⁵“My Covenant with am na life and peace; I give am dem make e hold dem with reverence, and e reverence me and e dey shake for front of my name. ⁶True teaching dey for im mouth, no wrong dey for im lips. E waka with me for peace and with clean heart, and e turn plenty people comot from sin. ⁷Priest im lips dey guard knowledge, and people dey find teaching from im mouth, because na im be di messenger of di Papa wey get di army for heaven. ⁸But una turn comot from di way and make plenty people stumble by una teaching; una spoil di Covenant of Levi, na so di Papa wey get di army for heaven talk. ⁹So I make people despise una and make una low for front of all di people, because una no keep my ways but una dey show favoritism for una teaching.”

Dem No Dey Faithful to Each Other and to di Papa

¹⁰No be one Papa we all get? No be one Papa create us? Why we go betray each other, dey desecrate di Covenant of our papa dem? ¹¹Judah no dey faithful; dem do detestable thing for Israel and Jerusalem. Judah don desecrate our Papa im holy place, wey e love, and e marry di daughter of one foreign god. ¹²Make our Papa cut comot from Jacob im tent dem di man wey dey do dis thing—anybody at all—even person wey dey bring offering come di Papa wey get di army for heaven.

¹³And second thing wey una dey do: una dey cover our Papa im altar with tears, dey cry and dey groan, because e no dey regard di offering again or accept am with gladness from una hand. ¹⁴Una dey ask, “Why?” Na because our Papa be witness between you and di wife of your youth, wey you betray—even though na your companion, your wife by Covenant. ¹⁵No be di Papa make you and your wife be one? For body and spirit, na im own you be. And wetin e want? Godly pikin dem from your union. So guard your spirit; make nobody betray di wife of im youth.

¹⁶“Because I hate divorce,” na so our Papa, di Papa of Israel talk, “and anybody wey dey cover im garment with violence,” na so di Papa wey get di army for heaven talk. So guard your spirit; no dey unfaithful.

¹⁷Una don tire our Papa with una words. But una still dey ask, “How we take tire am?” Na by talking say, “All di people wey dey do evil dey good for im eye, and e dey happy with dem”—or, “Where di Papa of justice dey?”