Thomson(i)
1 now therefore this command is for you, priests.
2 If you will not hearken and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, saith the Lord Almighty, I will send that curse against you and curse your blessing. I will curse it; and disperse your blessing and it shall not be among you because you do not lay this to heart.
3 Behold I set apart for you the shoulder, now I will scatter the great intestine on your faces the great intestine of your festivals and take you to it.
4 Now you must know, since I sent this command to you to be my covenant with the Levites, saith the Lord Almighty,
5 that my covenant of life and peace was with him; and I gave it to him that I might be greatly feared and that he might be awed at my name.
6 The law of truth was in his mouth: and iniquity should not have been found in his lips. Walking uprightly with me in peace, he indeed turned many from iniquity.
7 Because the lips of a priest were to keep knowledge therefore law was to be sought from his mouth; since he is a messenger of the Lord Almighty:
8 but as for you, you have turned aside out of the way and weakened many by law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord Almighty,