Malachi 2:3

An Oracle Against The Temple Priesthood

² If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Armies, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart. ³ Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. ⁴ You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.

Appointed Feasts

Before Your Face

Nahum 3:6

I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

Exodus 29:14

But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin offering.

1 Kings 14:10

therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone.

Joel 1:17

The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

1 Samuel 2:29-30

Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?'

2 Kings 9:36-37

Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, "This is the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel,

Job 20:7

yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

Psalm 83:10

who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

Jeremiah 8:2

and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.

Malachi 2:9

"Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

Luke 14:35

It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

1 Corinthians 4:13

Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.