Malachi 2

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

²If una no go listen, or take am put for una belle to honor my name, na so di Papa of heaven army dem talk, I go send di curse come una and curse una blessing dem. I don already curse dem, because una no dey take am put for una belle. 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 give una, so my Covenant with Levi go stand, na so di Papa of heaven army dem talk. ⁵My Covenant with am na life and peace; I give am dem make e hold dem with reverence, and e revere me and e dey shake for front of my name. ⁶True-true teaching dey for im mouth, no bad thing for im lips. E waka with me for peace and honesty, 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 of heaven army dem. ⁸But una comot from di way and make plenty people trip by una teaching; una spoil di Covenant of Levi, na so di Papa of heaven army dem talk. ⁹So I make say all di people despise una and see una as low, because una no keep my ways but una dey do partiality 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 spoil di Covenant of our forefathers? ¹¹Judah no dey faithful; dem do detestable thing for Israel and Jerusalem. Judah don desecrate di holy place of our Papa, wey e love, and e marry di daughter of foreign god. ¹²Make our Papa cut off from Jacob tent dem di man wey dey do dis thing — anybody at all — even di one wey dey bring offering give di Papa of heaven army dem.

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

¹⁶“Because I hate divorce,” na so our Papa talk, di Papa of Israel, “and anybody wey dey cover im cloth with violence,” na so di Papa of heaven army dem 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 saying, “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?”