Malachie / Malachi
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▲1.1 The burden of the word of
the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
1.2 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,
1.3 And I
hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the
dragons of the wilderness.
1.4 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.
1.5 And
your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from
the border of Israel.
1.6 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?
1.7 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.
1.8 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.
1.9 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.
1.10 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.
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 heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
1.12 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.
1.13 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.
1.14 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.
▲2.1 And now, O ye priests, this
commandment [is] for you.
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, 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.
2.3 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.
2.4 And ye
shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant
might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
2.5 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.
2.6 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.
2.7 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.
2.8 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.
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 been partial 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
loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
2.12 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.
2.13 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.
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: yet [is]
she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
2.15 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.
2.16 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.
2.17 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?
▲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, even the messenger of the
covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of
hosts.
3.2 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:
3.3 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.
3.4 Then
shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as
in the days of old, and as in former 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 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 sons of Jacob are not
consumed.
3.7 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?
3.8 Will a
man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed
thee? In tithes and offerings.
3.9 Ye
[are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole
nation.
3.10 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].
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 her fruit before
the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
3.12 And
all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land,
saith the LORD of hosts.
3.13 Your
words have been stout against me, saith the 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 ordinance, 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 set up;
yea, [they that] tempt God are even delivered.
3.16 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.
3.17 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.
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, 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.
4.2 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.
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 [this], 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, [with] the statutes and judgments.
4.5 Behold,
I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and
dreadful day of the LORD:
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.
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