Mal 2:3 | JFB | STEP | 3. corrupt, &c.—literally, "rebuke," answering to the opposite prophecy of blessing ( ), "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 ( ), 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 ( ; compare ).

Malachi 2:3

3. corrupt, &c.—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 (De 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; 22:19).