Malachi
1:1The burden of the word of Jehovah to
Israel by Malachi. 1:2I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye
say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, saith
Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob; 1:3but Esau I hated, and made his
mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the
wilderness. 1:4Whereas Edom saith, We are beaten down,
but we will return and build the waste places; thus saith Jehovah of
hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them
The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Jehovah hath
indignation for ever. 1:5And your eyes shall see, and ye shall
say, Jehovah be magnified beyond the border of Israel. 1:6A son
honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father,
where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah
of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein
have we despised thy name? 1:7Ye offer polluted bread upon mine
altar. And ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The
table of Jehovah is contemptible. 1:8And when ye offer the blind for
sacrifice, it is no evil! and when ye offer the lame and sick, it is no
evil! Present it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee? or
will he accept thy person? saith Jehovah of hosts. 1:9And now, I pray you,
entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious unto us: this hath been
by your means: will he accept any of your persons? saith Jehovah of hosts.
1:10Oh that there were one among you that
would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle fire on mine altar
in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith Jehovah of hosts, neither will I
accept an offering at your hand. 1:11For 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 Gentiles,
saith Jehovah of hosts. 1:12But ye profane it, in that ye say, The
table of Jehovah is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even its food, is
contemptible. 1:13Ye say also, Behold, what a weariness
is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith Jehovah of hosts; and ye have
brought that which was taken by violence, and the lame, and the sick; thus
ye bring the offering: should I accept this at your hand? saith Jehovah.
1:14But cursed be the deceiver, who hath
in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a blemished
thing; for I am a great King, saith Jehovah of hosts, and my name is
terrible among the Gentiles.
2:1And now, O ye priests, this commandment
is for you. 2:2If ye will not hear, and if ye will not
lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, then
will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I
have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. 2:3Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and
will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and ye
shall be taken away with it. 2:4And ye shall know that I have sent this
commandment unto you, that my covenant may be with Levi, saith Jehovah of
hosts. 2:5My covenant was with him of life and
peace; and I gave them to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and
stood in awe of my name. 2:6The law of truth was in his mouth, and
unrighteousness was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and
uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity. 2:7For the priest's lips
should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he
is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts. 2:8But ye are turned aside out of the way;
ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant
of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts. 2:9Therefore have I also made you
contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept
my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law. 2:10Have we not all one
father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every
man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers? 2:11Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an
abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath
profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loveth, and hath married the
daughter of a foreign god. 2:12Jehovah will cut off, to the man that
doeth this, him that waketh and him that answereth, out of the tents of
Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto Jehovah of hosts. 2:13And
this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping,
and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more,
neither receiveth it with good will at your hand. 2:14Yet ye say, Wherefore?
Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth,
against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion,
and the wife of thy covenant. 2:15And did he not make one, although he
had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed.
Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously
against the wife of his youth. 2:16For I hate putting away, saith
Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with
violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that
ye deal not treacherously. 2:17Ye have wearied Jehovah with your
words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one
that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in
them; or where is the God of justice?
3:1Behold, I send my messenger, and he
shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly
come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire,
behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts. 3:2But who can abide the
day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a
refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap: 3:3and he will sit as a
refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and
refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer unto Jehovah
offerings in righteousness. 3:4Then shall the offering of Judah and
Jerusalem be pleasant unto Jehovah, as in the days of old, and as in
ancient years. 3:5And 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 sojourner from his right, and fear not me, saith
Jehovah of hosts. 3:6For I, Jehovah, change not; therefore
ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. 3:7From the days of your
fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them.
Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye
say, Wherein shall we return? 3:8Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But
ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 3:9Ye
are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation. 3:10Bring ye the whole tithe into the
store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now
herewith, saith Jehovah 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. 3:11And I will rebuke the devourer for
your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither
shall your vine cast its fruit before the time in the field, saith Jehovah
of hosts. 3:12And all nations shall call you happy;
for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith Jehovah of hosts. 3:13Your words have been stout against me,
saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee? 3:14Ye
have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have
kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of
hosts? 3:15And now we call the proud happy; yea,
they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.
3:16Then they that feared Jehovah spake
one with another; and Jehovah hearkened, and heard, and a book of
remembrance was written before him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that
thought upon his name. 3:17And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah
of hosts, even mine own possession, in the day that I make; and I
will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. 3:18Then shall ye return and discern
between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him
that serveth him not.
4:1For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth
as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be
stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of
hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 4:2But
unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with
healing in its wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the
stall. 4:3And ye shall tread down the wicked; for
they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,
saith Jehovah of hosts. 4:4Remember ye the law of Moses my
servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes
and ordinances. 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the
prophet before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come. 4:6And
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.
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