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The burden of the word of theJehovah Lord to Israel by Malachi |
| 1:2 |
I have loved you saith theJehovah Lord Yet ye say Wherein hast thou loved us Was not Esau Jacobs brother saith the LordJehovah: yet I loved Jacob; |
| 1:3 |
Andbut Esau I hated Esau and laidmade his mountains a desolation and gave his heritage wasteto for the dragonsjackals of the wilderness |
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Whereas Edom saith We are impoverishedbeaten down but we will return and build the desolatewaste places; thus saith theJehovah Lord of hosts They shall build but I will throw down; and theymen shall call them The border of wickedness and The people against whom theJehovah Lord hath indignation for ever |
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And your eyes shall see and ye shall say TheJehovah Lord will be magnified frombeyond the border of Israel |
| 1:6 |
A son honourethhonoreth his father and a servant his master: if then I beam a father where is mine honourhonor and if I beam a master where is my fear saith theJehovah 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; andAnd ye say Wherein have we polluted thee In that ye say The table of theJehovah Lord is contemptible |
| 1:8 |
And ifwhen ye offer the blind for sacrifice it is itno not evil and ifwhen ye offer the lame and sick it is itno not evil offerPresent it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee or will he accept thy person saith theJehovah Lord of hosts |
| 1:9 |
And now I pray you beseechentreat the favor of God that he willmay be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regardaccept any of your persons saith theJehovah Lord of hosts |
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WhoOh isthat there evenwere one among you that would shut the doors forthat noughtye neithermight donot ye kindle fire on mine altar forin noughtvain I have no pleasure in you saith theJehovah 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 heathenGentiles saith theJehovah Lord of hosts |
| 1:12 |
But ye haveprofane profaned it in that ye say The table of theJehovah Lord is polluted; and the fruit thereof even hisits meatfood is contemptible |
| 1:13 |
Ye saidsay also Behold what a weariness is it and ye have snuffed at it saith theJehovah Lord of hosts; and ye have brought that which was torntaken by violence and the lame and the sick; thus ye broughtbring anthe offering: should I accept this ofat your hand saith theJehovah Lord |
| 1:14 |
But cursed be the deceiver whichwho hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corruptblemished thing:; for I am a great King saith theJehovah Lord of hosts and my name is dreadfulterrible among the heathenGentiles |
| 2:2 |
If ye will not hear and if ye will not lay it to heart to give glory unto my name saith theJehovah Lord of hosts Ithen will evenI send athe 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 corruptrebuke your seed and will spread dung upon your faces even the dung of your solemn feasts; and oneye shall takebe youtaken away with it |
| 2:4 |
And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you that my covenant mightmay be with Levi saith theJehovah Lord of hosts |
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My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him forthat thehe might fear; wherewithand he feared me and wasstood afraidin beforeawe of my name |
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The law of truth was in his mouth and iniquityunrighteousness was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equityuprightness and didturned turn many away from iniquity |
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For the priests lips should keep knowledge and they should seek the law at his mouth:; for he is the messenger of theJehovah Lord of hosts |
| 2:8 |
But ye are departedturned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble atin the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi saith theJehovah 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 beenhad partialrespect of persons 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 theJehovah Lord which he lovedloveth and hath married the daughter of a strangeforeign god |
| 2:12 |
TheJehovah Lord will cut off to the man that doeth this thehim masterthat waketh and thehim scholarthat answereth out of the tabernaclestents of Jacob and him that offereth an offering unto theJehovah Lord of hosts |
| 2:13 |
And this haveagain ye donedo: againye coveringcover the altar of theJehovah Lord with tears with weeping and with cryingsighing out insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more orneither receiveth it with good will at your hand |
| 2:14 |
Yet ye say Wherefore Because theJehovah Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yetthough she is she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant |
| 2:15 |
And did he not he make one Yetalthough he had he the residue of the spiritSpirit And wherefore one ThatHe hesought 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 theI Lordhate putting away saith Jehovah the God of Israel saithand him that hecovereth hatethhis puttinggarment away:with for one covereth violence with his garment saith theJehovah Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit that ye deal not treacherously |
| 2:17 |
Ye have wearied theJehovah Lord with your words Yet ye say Wherein have we wearied him WhenIn that ye say Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of theJehovah Lord and he delighteth in them; or Wherewhere is the God of judgmentjustice |
| 3:1 |
Behold I will send my messenger and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord whom ye seek shallwill suddenly come to his temple; evenand the messenger of the covenant whom ye delightdesire in: behold he shallcometh come saith theJehovah Lord of hosts |
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But who maycan abide the day of his coming and who shall stand when he appeareth for he is like a refiners fire and like fullers soap: |
| 3:3 |
Andand he shallwill sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shallwill purify the sons of Levi and purgerefine them as gold and silver; thatand they mayshall offer unto theJehovah Lordofferings an offering in righteousness |
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Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto theJehovah Lord as in the days of old and as in formerancient 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 the false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages the widow and the fatherless and that turn aside the strangersojourner from his right and fear not me saith theJehovah Lord of hosts |
| 3:6 |
For I amJehovah the Lord I change not; therefore ye O sons of Jacob are not consumed |
| 3:7 |
EvenFrom from the days of your fathers ye arehave goneturned awayaside from mine ordinances and have not kept them Return unto me and I will return unto you saith theJehovah Lord of hosts But ye saidsay Wherein shall we return |
| 3:8 |
Will a man rob God Yetyet ye haverob robbed me But ye say Wherein have we robbed thee In tithes and offerings |
| 3:9 |
Ye are cursed with athe curse:; for ye haverob robbed me even this whole nation |
| 3:10 |
Bring ye all the titheswhole tithe into the storehousestore house that there may be meatfood in minemy house and prove me now herewith saith theJehovah 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 herits fruit before the time in the field saith theJehovah Lord of hosts |
| 3:12 |
And all nations shall call you blessed:happy; for ye shall be a delightsome land saith theJehovah Lord of hosts |
| 3:13 |
Your words have been stout against me saith theJehovah 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 ordinancecharge and that we have walked mournfully before theJehovah Lord of hosts |
| 3:15 |
Andand now we call the proud happy; yea they that work wickedness are setbuilt up; yea they that tempt God areand even deliveredescape |
| 3:16 |
Then they that feared theJehovah Lord spake often one towith another:; and theJehovah Lord hearkened and heard it and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared theJehovah Lord and that thought upon his name |
| 3:17 |
And they shall be mine saith theJehovah Lord of hosts even mine own possession in thatthe day whenthat I make up my jewels; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him |
| 4:1 |
For behold the day cometh thatit shallburneth burn as ana ovenfurnace; and all the proud yea and all that dowork wickedlywickedness shall be stubble:; and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith theJehovah Lord of hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch |
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But unto you that fear my name shall the Sunsun of righteousness arise with healing in hisits wings; and ye shall go forth and growgambol 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 shallmake do this saith theJehovah Lord of hosts |
| 4:4 |
Remember ye the law of Moses my servant which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel witheven the statutes and judgmentsordinances |
| 4:5 |
Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadfulterrible day of theJehovah Lord:come |
| 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 |