Malachi 2:9
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
“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.”

Young's Literal Translation
And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.

King James Bible
Therefore 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.

Hebrew
“So I
אֲנִ֞י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

in turn
וְגַם־ (wə·ḡam-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

have made
נָתַ֧תִּי (nā·ṯat·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

you despised
נִבְזִ֥ים (niḇ·zîm)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 959: To disesteem

and humiliated
וּשְׁפָלִ֖ים (ū·šə·p̄ā·lîm)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 8217: Depressed

before all
לְכָל־ (lə·ḵāl)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the people,
הָעָ֑ם (hā·‘ām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

because
כְּפִ֗י (kə·p̄î)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to

you have not
אֵֽינְכֶם֙ (’ê·nə·ḵem)
Adverb | second person masculine plural
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

kept
שֹׁמְרִ֣ים (šō·mə·rîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

My ways,
דְּרָכַ֔י (də·rā·ḵay)
Noun - common plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

but have shown partiality
וְנֹשְׂאִ֥ים (wə·nō·śə·’îm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

in matters of the law.”
בַּתּוֹרָֽה׃ (bat·tō·w·rāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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