Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
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Gill's Exposition
Behold, I will corrupt your seed,.... Or, "the seed for you" (r); that is, for your sake, as Kimchi and Ben Melech explain it; meaning the seed they cast into the earth, which the Lord threatens to…
Barnes' Notes
Lo, I will rebuke the seed for your sake - o, i. e., that it should not grow. He who worketh by His sustaining will all the operations of nature, would at His will withhold them. Neither priests nor…
What was said in the foregoing chapter was directed to the priests (Mal 1:6): Thus saith the Lord of hosts to you, O priests! that despise my name. But the crimes there charged upon them they were…
Cambridge Bible
corrupt Rather, reprove, margin A.V.; or rebuke, R.V. Comp. ch. Mal 3:11: "I will rebuke (the same word) the devourer." God will wither with His rebuke the seed so that it shall not germinate, or…
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