The Book of the Prophet Malachi 2 Marriages with foreign women and divorce are illicit

 The Book of the Prophet Malachi 2

Marriages with foreign women and divorce are illicit

10 Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

11 Judah has been faithless, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

12 The Lord will cut off from the tents of Jacob the man who does this, the one who watches, and the one who answers, and the one who offers gifts to the Lord of hosts.

13 Yet this is another thing you do: you cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and groaning, so that he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with pleasure from your hand.

14 And you say, “Why?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, with whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

15 And did he not make them one, having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth.

16 For the Lord God of Israel says that he hates divorce, and him who covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and do not deal treacherously.

17 You weary the Lord with your words; yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them”; or, “Where is the God of justice?”