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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 hosts?
- 3:15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work
- wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even
- delivered.
- 3:16 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.
- 3:17 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.
- 3:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous
- and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that
- serveth him not.
-
- 4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;
- and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be
- stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the
- LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor
- branch.
- 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of
- righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go
- forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
- 4:3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be
- ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do
- [this], saith the LORD of hosts.
- 4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I
- commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, [with] the statutes
- and judgments.
- 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the
- coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
- 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the
- children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest
- I come and smite the earth with a curse.