Malachi 2:3
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Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the waste from your feasts, and you will be carried off with it.
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I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.
“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.
Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone!
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile, and it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.
when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.