MALACHI —— CHAPTER 3
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1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall
prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly
come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight
in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and
who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire,
and like fullers' soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier
of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and
silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem
be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former
years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I
will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers,
and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in
his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the
stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of
hosts.
6 For I am the LORD, I change not;
therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
7 Even from the days of your fathers ye
are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them.
Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye
said, Wherein shall we return?
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed
me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and
offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have
robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,
that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith
the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour
you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to
receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your
sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall
your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of
hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye
shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
13 Your words have been stout against
me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much
against thee?
14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God:
and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we
have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they
that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even
delivered.
16 Then they that feared the LORD spake
often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a
book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the
LORD, and that thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of
hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a
man spareth his own son that serveth him.
18 Then shall ye return, and discern between
the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that
serveth him not.
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