Malachi 2:13

again Lit. second. The first evil of marrying heathen women was accompanied by a second, the cruel treatment and divorce ("putting-away," Malachi 2:16) of their lawful wives, which is now dealt with, Malachi 2:13.

covering the altar The weeping crowd of insulted and divorced wives turn to God, as their only refuge, so that the courts of His Temple resound with their sad complaints, and His very altar, round which they gather, is bathed, as it were, with their tears.

crying out Rather, sighing, R.V., as the same word is rendered in Psalms 79:11; or groaning, Psalms 102:20.