1Yo, priests, this one's for you, no cap.

2If you ain't listening and ain't giving my name the hype it deserves, the Lord's gonna hit you with a curse, and your blessings? They’re already cursed, fr.

3Check it, I’m about to mess with your lineage and throw some serious shade on your faces, even the leftovers from your parties; someone’s gonna take you out with it.

4You’ll know I sent this commandment so my vibe with Levi stays strong, says the Lord of hosts.

5My pact was all about life and peace; I gave those to him 'cause he had mad respect for me and wasn't afraid to show it.

6Truth was always on his lips, and he wasn’t about that shady life; he walked with me in peace and fairness, pulling people away from their sus ways.

7Priests should keep the knowledge fresh, and they gotta seek the law from his mouth; he’s the messenger for the Lord of hosts.

8But y’all have strayed off course; you made people stumble over the law and messed up Levi's covenant, says the Lord of hosts.

9So I’ve made you look weak and low-key in front of everyone because you didn’t keep it 100 with my ways and played favorites with the law.

10Don’t we all have one Father? Didn’t one God create us? Why are we out here betraying each other and dissing the covenant of our ancestors?

11Judah’s been shady, and it’s a whole mess in Israel and Jerusalem; Judah dissed the holiness of the Lord he loved and married some strange god’s daughter.

12The Lord’s gonna cut off anyone who does this, whether you’re a boss or a scholar, out of Jacob's crew, including anyone offering to the Lord of hosts.

13And y’all keep pulling this move, covering the Lord’s altar with tears and feels, so much that He’s not even checking for your offerings anymore, no cap.

14But you ask, “Why?” 'Cause the Lord's been watching you and your youth’s wife, whom you’ve been shady with; she’s your ride or die and the wife of your covenant.

15Didn’t He make just one? He had the spirit left over, and why just one? To seek a godly crew. So keep it real, and don’t be shady with your youth’s wife.

16The Lord, the God of Israel, says He hates breaking up; one covers violence with their drip, says the Lord of hosts; so keep it in check and don’t be shady.

17You’ve tired the Lord out with your words. But you ask, “How?” When you say everyone doing evil is good in the Lord’s eyes, and He’s vibing with them; or, “Where’s the God of judgment?”

1And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

2If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

3Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

4And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

5My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.

6The 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.

7For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

8But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

9Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

10Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

11Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

12The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts.

13And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.

14Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

15And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

16For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

17Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?