| 1:2 |
I have loved you, says the Lord. But you say, How hasthave ThouYou loved us? Was not Esau Jacobs brother? declares the Lord. Yet I have loved Jacob; |
| 1:3 |
but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation, and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness. |
| 1:5 |
AndYour your eyes will see this and you will say, The Lord be magnified beyond the border of Israel! |
| 1:6 |
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, How have we despised ThyYour name? |
| 1:7 |
You are presenting defiled food upon My altar. But you say, How have we defiled TheeYou? In that you say, The table of the Lord is to be despised. |
| 1:11 |
For from the rising of the sun, even to its setting, My name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense is going to be offered to My name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts. |
| 1:13 |
You also say, My, how tiresome it is! And you disdainfully sniff at it, says the Lord of hosts, and you bring what was taken by robbery, and what is lame or sick; so you bring the offering! Should I receive that from your hand? says the Lord. |
| 1:14 |
But cursed be the swindler who has a male in his flock, and vows it, but sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord, for I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, and My name is feared among the nations. |
| 2:1 |
And now, this commandment is for you, O priests. |
| 2:2 |
If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already, because you are not taking it to heart. |
| 2:5 |
My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him as an object of reverence; so he revered Me, and stood in awe of My name. |
| 2:6 |
True instruction was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found on his lips; he walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many back from iniquity. |
| 2:9 |
So I also have made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways, but are showing partiality in the instruction. |
| 2:11 |
Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. |
| 2:13 |
AndThis this is another thing you do: you cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and with groaning, because He no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. |
| 2:15 |
But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then, to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth. |
| 3:3 |
And He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the Lord offerings in righteousness. |
| 3:4 |
Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord, as in the days of old and as in former years. |
| 3:5 |
Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien, and do not fear Me, says the Lord of hosts. |
| 3:7 |
From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes, and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, How shall we return? |
| 3:8 |
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, How have we robbed TheeYou? In tithes and offerings. |
| 3:10 |
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows. |
| 3:11 |
Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it maywill not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes, says the Lord of hosts. |
| 3:12 |
AndAll all the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a delightful land, says the Lord of hosts. |
| 3:13 |
Your words have been arrogant against Me, says the Lord. Yet you say, What have we spoken against TheeYou? |
| 3:15 |
So now we call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up, but they also test God and escape. |
| 3:17 |
AndThey they will be Mine, says the Lord of hosts, on the day that I prepare My own possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him. |
| 4:2 |
But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. |
| 4:3 |
AndYou you will tread down the wicked, for they shallwill be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing, says the Lord of hosts. |
| 4:6 |
AndHe he will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lestso that I will not come and smite the land with a curse. |