Malachi 2:14
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Berean Study Bible
Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Young's Literal Translation
And ye have said, ‘Wherefore?’ Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

King James Bible
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet [is] she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Hebrew
Yet you ask,
וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם (wa·’ă·mar·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“Why?”
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

It is because
עַ֡ל (‘al)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the LORD
יְהוָה֩ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

has been a witness
הֵעִ֨יד (hê·‘îḏ)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5749: To duplicate, repeat, to protest, testify, to encompass, restore

between you
בֵּינְךָ֜ (bê·nə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 996: An interval, space between

and
וּבֵ֣ין ׀ (ū·ḇên)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 996: An interval, space between

the wife
אֵ֣שֶׁת (’ê·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

of your youth,
נְעוּרֶ֗יךָ (nə·‘ū·re·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5271: Youth, the state, the persons

against whom
אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

you
אַתָּה֙ (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

have broken faith,
בָּגַ֣דְתָּה (bā·ḡaḏ·tāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 898: To cover, to act covertly, to pillage

though she is
וְהִ֥יא (wə·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

your companion
חֲבֶרְתְּךָ֖ (ḥă·ḇer·tə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 2278: A consort

and your wife
וְאֵ֥שֶׁת (wə·’ê·šeṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

by covenant.
בְּרִיתֶֽךָ׃ (bə·rî·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1285: A covenant

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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