Hall of Fame/HallofFameCDROM.cdr/biblekjv/malachi.txt

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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.