5. My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me and was broken before my name.
6. The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and righteousness and turned many away from iniquity.
7. For the priest’s lips keep wisdom, and they seek the law at his mouth; for he is an angel of the Lord of the hosts.
8. But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, said the Lord of the hosts.
9. Therefore I have 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.