SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:3
He aquí, reprendo su simiente, y esparciré el estiércol sobre vuestros rostros, el estiércol de vuestras solemnidades, y con él seréis removidos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:3
Verse 3. Behold, I will corrupt your seed] So as to render it unfruitful. Newcome translates, - "I will take away from you the shoulder." This was the part that belonged to the priest, Lev. vii. 32; Deut. xviii. 3.
Spread dung upon your faces] Instead of receiving a sacrifice at your hands, I will throw your offerings back into your faces. Here God shows his contempt for them and their offerings.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. Behold, I will corrupt your seed , etc.] Or, “the seed for you” f40 ; 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 corrupt and destroy; so that it should not spring up again, and bring forth any increase: or, “rebuke” it, as the word sometimes signifies; and so the Targum, “behold, I will rebuke you in the increase, the fruit (son) of the seed.”
The sense is the same; corrupting the seed being a rebuke to them; and rebuking the seed being a corruption of that, or hindering it from growing up. It is a threatening of a sore famine that should be in the Jewish nation; and which Cocceius thinks was that which happened in the days of Claudius Caesar, ( Acts 11:28,29). The Septuagint version renders it, “behold, I separate to you the shoulder”; the Arabic version, “the right hand”, or arm; and the Vulgate Latin is, “behold, I will cast forth to you the arm”; the right shoulder of the sacrifice, which was given to the priests, and here threatened to be cast to them with indignation, ( Leviticus 7:32,34 Deuteronomy 18:3) but the former sense is best: and spread dung upon your faces, [even] the dung of your solemn feasts ; that is, the dung of their beasts which were slain for sacrifice at their solemn feasts: so this word gj is used for a beast offered for sacrifice at a festival, ( <19B827> Psalm 118:27). The sense is, that their sacrifices and solemn feasts were so far from being acceptable to God, that he would reject both them and their persons, and would cast the very dung of the creatures brought for sacrifice into their faces, and spread it over them: a phrase expressive of the utmost contempt of them, and of exposing them to the greatest shame and confusion for their sins. So the Targum, “I will make manifest the shame of your sins upon your faces; and will cause to cease the magnificence of your feasts.”
The Septuagint render it, the ventricle, or “maw”; which was given to the priests, ( Deuteronomy 18:3) and in which the dung was contained: and [one] shall take you away with it ; with the dung spread upon them; they looking like a heap of dung, being covered with it, and had in no more account than that: or “to it” f42 ; that is, as Jarchi explains it, to the dung of the beasts of your sacrifices they shall carry you; or you shall be carried to it, that ye may be rejected and despised as that. Kimchi’s note is “the iniquity (you are guilty of) shall carry you to this contempt; measure for measure; you have despised me, and ye shall be despised:” or “with him”, or “to himself” f43 ; meaning he, or it that shall take them away; either the wind or dung; or the enemy, as Aben Ezra interprets it; by whom the Romans may be designed, who took them away out of their own land, and carried them captive. According to the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, this is to be understood of God, who render the words, “I will take you together”, or “with it”.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-9 - What is here said of the covenant of priesthood, is true of the covenant of grace made with all believers, as spiritual priests. It is a covenant of life and peace; it assures all believers of all happiness, both in this world and in that to come. It is an honour to God's servants to be employed as his messengers. The priest's lip should not keep knowledge from his people, but keep it for them. The people are all concerned to know the will of the Lord. We must not onl consult the written word, but desire instruction and advice from God' messengers, in the affairs of our souls. Ministers must exer themselves to the utmost for the conversion of sinners; and even amon those called Israelites, there are many to be turned from iniquity Those ministers, and those only, are likely to turn men from sin, wh preach sound doctrine, and live holy lives according to the Scripture Many departed from this way; thus they misled the people. Such as wal with God in peace and righteousness, and turn others from sin, honou God; he will honour them, while those who despise him shall be lightl esteemed.
Original Hebrew
הנני 2005 גער 1605 לכם את 853 הזרע 2233 וזריתי 2219 פרשׁ 6569 על 5921 פניכם 6440 פרשׁ 6569 חגיכם 2282 ונשׂא 5375 אתכם 853 אליו׃ 413
