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1:1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
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,
1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage
 waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
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.
1:5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be
 magnified from 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 the LORD of hosts unto you, O
 priests, that despise my name. And 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 the LORD
 [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? offer it
 now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept
 thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2:1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment [is] for you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
3:6 For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of
 Jacob are not consumed.
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?
3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say,
 Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
3:9 Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even]
 this whole nation.
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].
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.
3:12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a
 delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
3:13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet
 ye say, What have we spoken [so much] against thee?
3:14 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 h