Malachi 2:11-16
View Full Chapter11Judah has been unfaithful. A detestable thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the LORD loves by marrying women who worship a foreign god.
12As for the man who does this, whoever he may be, may the LORD remove him from the tents of Jacob
14You ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD is the witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.
15Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.
16“The man who hates and divorces his wife,” says the LORD, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,”