Discovery BoxMalachi 2:11 
Context2:11 Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. 1 For Judah has profaned 2 the holy things that the Lord loves and has turned to a foreign god! 3
Malachi 3:14
Context3:14 You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped 4 by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all? 5
1 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
2 tn Or perhaps “secularized”; cf. NIV “desecrated”; TEV, NLT “defiled”; CEV “disgraced.”
3 tn Heb “has married the daughter of a foreign god.” Marriage is used here as a metaphor to describe Judah’s idolatry, that is, her unfaithfulness to the
4 tn Heb “What [is the] profit”; NIV “What did we gain.”
5 sn The people’s public display of self-effacing piety has gone unrewarded by the
