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1:1 The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi.
1:2 I have loved you, saith Jehovah; but ye say, Wherein hast
 thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith Jehovah, and
 I loved Jacob,
1:3 and I hated Esau; and made his mountains a desolation, and
 [gave] his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.
1:4 If Edom say, We are broken down, but we will build again the
 ruined places, -- thus saith Jehovah of hosts: They shall
 build, but I will throw down; and [men] shall call them the
 territory of wickedness, and the people against whom Jehovah
 hath indignation for ever.
1:5 And your eyes shall see [it], and ye shall say, Jehovah is
 magnified beyond the border of Israel.
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 Jehovah of hosts unto you, priests,
 that despise my name. But ye say, Wherein have we despised thy
 name?
1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein
 have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of Jehovah is
 contemptible.
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? Present it now
 unto thy governor: will he be pleased with thee? or will he
 accept thy person? saith Jehovah of hosts.
1:9 And now, I pray you, beseech ∙God that he will be gracious
 unto us. This hath been of your hand: will he accept any of
 your persons? saith Jehovah of hosts.
1:10 Who is there among you that would even shut the doors? and
 ye would not kindle [fire] on mine altar for nothing. I have no
 delight in you, saith Jehovah of hosts, neither will I accept
 an oblation at your hand.
1:11 For from the rising of the sun even unto its setting my
 name shall be great among the nations; and in every place
 incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure oblation: for
 my name shall be great among the nations, saith Jehovah of
 hosts.
1:12 But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is
 polluted; and the fruit thereof, his food, is contemptible.
1:13 And ye say, Behold, what a weariness! And ye have puffed at
 it, saith Jehovah of hosts, and ye bring [that which was] torn,
 and the lame, and the sick; thus ye bring the oblation: should
 I accept this of your hand? saith Jehovah.
1:14 Yea, cursed be the deceiver, who hath in his flock a male,
 and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing; for I
 am a great King, saith Jehovah of hosts, and my name is
 terrible among the nations.
2:1 And now, ye priests, this commandment is for you.
2:2 If ye do not hear, and if ye do not lay [it] to heart, to
 give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will even
 send the curse among you, and I will curse your blessings: yea,
 I have already cursed them, because ye do not lay [it] to
 heart.
2:3 Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and spread dung upon your
 faces, the dung of your feasts; and they shall take you away
 with it.
2:4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto
 you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith Jehovah of
 hosts.
2:5 My covenant with him was of life and peace, and I gave them
 to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and trembled
 before my name.
2:6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was
 not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and
 uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.
2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and at his
 mouth they seek the law; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of
 hosts.
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 Jehovah of hosts.
2:9 And I also have made you contemptible and base before all
 the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have respect
 of persons in [administering] the law.
2:10 Have we not all one father? Hath not one ∙God created us?
 Why do we deal unfaithfully every man against his brother, by
 profaning the covenant of our fathers?
2:11 Judah hath dealt unfaithfully, and an abomination is
 committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned
 the sanctuary of Jehovah which he loved, and hath married the
 daughter of a strange ∙god.
2:12 Jehovah will cut off from the tents of Jacob the man that
 doeth this, him that calleth and him that answereth; and him
 that offereth an oblation unto Jehovah of hosts.
2:13 And further ye do this: ye cover the altar of Jehovah with
 tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he
 regardeth not the oblation any more, nor receiveth [it] with
 satisfaction at your hand.
2:14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been a witness
 between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast
 dealt unfaithfully: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of
 thy covenant.
2:15 And did not one make [them]? and the remnant of the Spirit
 was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take
 heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully
 against the wife of his youth,
2:16 (for I hate putting away, saith Jehovah the God of Israel;)
 and he covereth with violence his garment, saith Jehovah of
 hosts: take heed then to your spirit, that ye deal not
 unfaithfully.
2:17 Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, and ye say,
 Wherein have we wearied [him]? In that ye say, Every one that
 doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth
 in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
3:1 Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way
 before me; and the Lord whom ye seek will suddenly come to his
 temple, and the Angel of the covenant, whom ye delight in:
 behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts.
3:2 But who shall endure the day of his coming? and who shall
 stand when he appeareth? For he will be like a refiner's fire,
 and like fullers' lye.
3:3 And he shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver; and
 he will purify the children of Levi, and purge them as gold and
 silver; and they shall offer unto Jehovah an oblation in
 righteousness.
3:4 Then shall the oblation of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant
 unto Jehovah, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
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 the false swearers, and against those
 that oppress the hired servant in [his] wages, the widow and
 the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his
 right], and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
3:6 For I Jehovah change not, and ye, sons of Jacob, are not
 consumed.
3:7 Since the days of your fathers have ye departed from my
 statutes, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will
 return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein
 shall we return?
3:8 Will a man rob God? But ye rob me. And ye say, Wherein do we
 rob thee? [In] tithes and heave-offerings.
3:9 Ye are cursed with a curse; and me ye rob, [even] this whole
 nation.
3:10 Bring the whole tithe into the treasure-house, that there
 may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith
 Jehovah of hosts, if I open not to you the windows of the
 heavens, and pour you out a blessing, till there be no place
 for it.
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 its fruit before the time in the field, saith Jehovah of
 hosts.
3:12 And all nations shall call you blessed; for ye shall be a
 delightsome land, saith Jehovah of hosts.
3:13 Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah; but
 ye say, What have we been speaking against thee?
3:14 Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that
 we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah
 of hosts?
3:15 And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work
 wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape.
3:16 Then they that feared Jehovah spoke often one to another;
 and Jehovah observed [it], and