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MAL 1:1  The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.

MAL 1:2  I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved
 us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

MAL 1:3  And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for
 the dragons of the wilderness.

MAL 1:4  Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build
 the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I
 will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The
 people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

MAL 1:5  And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified
 from the border of Israel.

MAL 1:6  A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a
 father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith
 the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say,
 Wherein have we despised thy name?

MAL 1:7  Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we
 polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.

MAL 1:8  And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye
 offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will
 he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.

MAL 1:9  And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us:
 this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of
 hosts.

MAL 1:10  Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought?
 neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in
 you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

MAL 1:11  For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same
 my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall
 be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great
 among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.

MAL 1:12  But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is
 polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.

MAL 1:13  Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at
 it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the
 lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your
 hand? saith the LORD.

MAL 1:14  But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and
 voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King,
 saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

MAL 2:1  And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

MAL 2:2  If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory
 unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and
 I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do
 not lay it to heart.

MAL 2:3  Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces,
 even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

MAL 2:4  And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my
 covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

MAL 2:5  My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for
 the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.

MAL 2:6  The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his
 lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from
 iniquity.

MAL 2:7  For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the
 law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

MAL 2:8  But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at
 the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

MAL 2:9  Therefore have I 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.

MAL 2:10  Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we
 deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant
 of our fathers?

MAL 2:11  Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in
 Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD
 which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

MAL 2:12  The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the
 scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering
 unto the LORD of hosts.

MAL 2:13  And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with
 tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the
 offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.

MAL 2:14  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.

MAL 2:15  And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And
 wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your
 spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

MAL 2:16  For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away:
 for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts:
 therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

MAL 2:17  Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we
 wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight
 of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

MAL 3:1  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.

MAL 3:2  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:

MAL 3:3  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.

MAL 3:4  Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the
 LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

MAL 3:5  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.

MAL 3:6  For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not
 consumed.

MAL 3:7  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?

MAL 3:8  Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we
 robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

MAL 3:9  Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole
 nation.

MAL 3:10  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.

MAL 3:11  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.

MAL 3:12  And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome
 land, saith the LORD of hosts.

MAL 3:13  Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say,
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