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- MALACHI 1:1 The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by
- Malachi.
- 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,
- MALACHI 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his
- heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 1:5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The Lord
- will be magnified from the border of Israel.
- MALACHI 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?
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 2:1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment {is} for you.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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?
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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?
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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:
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 3:6 For I {am} the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons
- of Jacob are not consumed.
- MALACHI 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?
- MALACHI 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye
- say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
- MALACHI 3:9 Ye {are} cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me,
- {even} this whole nation.
- MALACHI 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}.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 3:12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall
- be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.
- MALACHI 3:13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the
- Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken {so much} against thee?
- MALACHI 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?
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 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.
- MALACHI 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the
- coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:
- MALACHI 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.