| 1:2 |
I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacobs brother? saith the Lord: 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. |
| 1:4 |
Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverishedbeaten down, but we will return and build the desolatewaste places; thus saith the 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 the Lord hath indignation for ever. |
| 1:5 |
And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The Lord will be magnified frombeyond the border of Israel. |
| 1:7 |
Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar;. andAnd ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the 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 the Lord of hosts. |
| 1:9 |
And now, I pray you, beseechentreat the favour of God, that he willmay be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regardaccept any of your persons? saith the Lord of hosts. |
| 1:10 |
WhoOh isthat there evenwere one among you that would shut the doors, forthat nought?ye neithermight donot ye kindle fire on mine altar forin nought.vain! 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 shallis be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shallis be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shallis be great among the heathenGentiles, saith the Lord of hosts. |
| 1:12 |
But ye haveprofane 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 saidsay also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the 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 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 corruptblemished thing: for I am a great Kingking, saith the 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 the 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 the seed for your seedsake, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feastssacrifices; and oneye shall takebe youtaken away with it. |
| 2:5 |
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. |
| 2:6 |
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 did turn many away from iniquity. |
| 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 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 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 the Lord which he lovedloveth, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. |
| 2:12 |
The 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 the Lord of hosts. |
| 2:13 |
And this haveagain ye donedo: again,ye coveringcover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying outsighing, 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 the 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 spirit.? 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 I hate putting away, saith the Lord, the God of Israel, saithand him that hecovereth hatethhis puttinggarment away:with 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? WhenIn that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Wherewhere is the God of judgmentjudgement? |
| 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,; evenand the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in:, behold, he shall comecometh, saith the Lord of hosts. |
| 3:3 |
Andand 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,; thatand they mayshall offer unto the Lord anofferings 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 formerancient years. |
| 3:5 |
And I will come near to you to judgmentjudgement; 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, 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 the 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 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. |
| 3:12 |
And all nations shall call you blessedhappy: for ye shall behe a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts. |
| 3:13 |
Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, WhatWherein 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 the Lord of hosts? |
| 3:15 |
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are setbuilt up; yea, they that tempt God, and are even delivered. |
| 3:16 |
Then they that feared the Lord spake often one towith 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 thatthe day whenthat I do make, upeven mya jewelspeculiar treasure; 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, 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 the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. |
| 4:2 |
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sunsun of righteousness arise with healing in his 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 shall do thismake, 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, witheven the statutes and judgmentsjudgements. |
| 4:5 |
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadfulterrible day of the 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. |