| 001:001
| The
burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. |
| 001:002 | 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, |
| 001:003 | And
I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons
of the wilderness. |
| 001:004 | 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. |
| 001:005 | And
your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the
border of Israel. |
| 001:006 | 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? |
| 001:007 | 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. |
| 001:008 | 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. |
| 001:009 | 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. |
| 001:010 | 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. |
| 001:011 | 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. |
| 001:012 | 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. |
| 001:013 | 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. |
| 001:014 | 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. |
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| 002:001
| And
now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. | | 002:002 | 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. |
| 002:003 | 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. |
| 002:004 | And
ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant
might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| 002:005 | 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. |
| 002:006 | 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. |
| 002:007 | 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. |
| 002:008 | 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. |
| 002:009 | 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. |
| 002:010 | 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? |
| 002:011 | 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. |
| 002:012 | 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. |
| 002:013 | 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. |
| 002:014 | 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. |
| 002:015 | 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. |
| 002:016 | 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. |
| 002:017 | 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? |
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| 003:001
| 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.
| | 003:002 | 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: |
| 003:003 | 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. |
| 003:004 | Then
shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in
the days of old, and as in former years. |
| 003:005 | 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. |
| 003:006 | For
I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. |
| 003:007 | 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? |
| 003:008 | Will
a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee?
In tithes and offerings. |
| 003:009 | Ye
are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. |
| 003:010 | 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. |
| 003:011 | 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. |
| 003:012 | And
all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith
the LORD of hosts. |
| 003:013 | Your
words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we
spoken so much against thee? |
| 003:014 | 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?
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| 003:015 | And
now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea,
they that tempt God are even delivered. |
| 003:016 | 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. |
| 003:017 | 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.
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| 003:018 | Then
shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between
him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. |
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| 004:001
| 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. | | 004:002 | 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. |
| 004:003 | 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. |
| 004:004 | Remember
ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all
Israel, with the statutes and judgments. |
| 004:005 | Behold,
I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful
day of the LORD: |
| 004:006 | 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. |