3 Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread refuse upon your faces, even the refuse of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
4 And you shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi,
5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
7 For the priest's lips should preserve knowledge, and they should seek the law from his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
8 But you have departed out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi,
9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.