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Book 39 Malachi Chapter 003

 

003:001Behold, 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.

 

003:002But 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:

 

003:003And 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.

 

003:004Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant
unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

 

003:005And 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.

 

003:006For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob
are not consumed.

 

003:007Even 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?

 

003:008Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein
have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

 

003:009Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this
whole nation.

 

003:010Bring 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.

 

003:011And 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.

 

003:012And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a
delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

 

003:013Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye
say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

 

003:014Ye 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?

 

003:015And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work
wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even
delivered.

 

003:016Then 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.

 

003:017And 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.

 

003:018Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and
the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth
him not.