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Malachi, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} An oracle: the word of [1>]the LORD[<1] to Israel by Malachi.
{1:2} "I have loved you," says the LORD.
Yet you say, "How have you loved us?"
"Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says the LORD, "Yet I loved Jacob;
{1:3} but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave
his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness." {1:4} Whereas Edom
says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste
places;" thus says the LORD of Hosts, "They shall build, but I will
throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people
against whom the LORD shows wrath forever."
{1:5} Your eyes will see, and you will say, "The LORD is great--even
beyond the border of Israel!"
{1:6} "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a
father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the
respect due me? Says the LORD of Hosts to you, priests, who despise my
name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?' {1:7} You offer
polluted bread on my altar. You say, 'How have we polluted you?' In
that you say, 'The LORD's table contemptible.' {1:8} When you offer
the blind for sacrifice, isn't that evil? And when you offer the lame
and sick, isn't that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be
pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?" says the LORD of
Hosts.
{1:9} "Now, please entreat the favor of [2>]God[<2], that he may be
gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?" says the LORD
of Hosts.
{1:10} "Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors,
that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure
in you," says the LORD of Hosts, "neither will I accept an offering at
your hand. {1:11} For from the rising of the sun even to the going
down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every
place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my
name is great among the nations," says the LORD of Hosts. {1:12} "But
you profane it, in that you say, 'The LORD's table is polluted, and
its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.' {1:13} You say also,
'Behold, what a weariness it is!' and you have sniffed at it," says
the LORD of Hosts; "and you have brought that which was taken by
violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should
I accept this at your hand?" says the LORD.
{1:14} "But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and
vows, and sacrifices to the [3>]Lord[<3] a blemished thing; for I am a
great King," says the LORD of Hosts, "and my name is awesome among the
nations."
{2:1} "Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. {2:2} If you
will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to
my name," says the LORD of Hosts, "then will I send the curse on you,
and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already,
because you do not lay it to heart. {2:3} Behold, I will rebuke your
seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your
feasts; and you will be taken away with it. {2:4} You will know that I
have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,"
says the LORD of Hosts. {2:5} "My covenant was with him of life and
peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and
he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name. {2:6} The 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. {2:7} 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 you have turned aside out of the way. You
have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the
covenant of Levi," says the LORD of Hosts. {2:9} "Therefore I have
also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according
to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons
in the law. {2:10} Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one God
created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his
brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers? {2:11} Judah has dealt
treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in
Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he
loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. {2:12} The LORD
will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who
answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to
the LORD of Hosts. {2:13} This again you do: you cover the altar of
the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he
doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good
will at your hand. {2:14} Yet you say, 'Why?' Because the LORD has
been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you
have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife
of your covenant. {2:15} Did he not make you one, although he had the
residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take
heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the
wife of his youth. {2:16} For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God
of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says the
LORD of Hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't
deal treacherously. {2:17} You have wearied the LORD with your words.
Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who
does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them;'
or 'Where is the God of justice?'
{3:1} "Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way
before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his
temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he
comes!" says the LORD of Hosts. {3:2} "But who can endure the day of
his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a
refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap; {3:3} and 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 to the LORD
offerings in righteousness. {3:4} Then the offering of Judah and
Jerusalem will be pleasant to the LORD, as in the days of old, and as
in ancient years. {3:5} 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 perjurers, and against those who oppress
the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who
deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says the LORD of
Hosts. {3:6} "For I, the LORD, don't change; therefore you, sons of
Jacob, are not consumed. {3:7} From the days of your fathers you have
turned aside from my ordinances, 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 rob me! But you
say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings. {3:9} You are
cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation. {3:10}
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in
my house, and test me now in this," says 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 for. {3:11} 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 its time in the field,"
says the LORD of Hosts. {3:12} "All nations shall call you blessed,
for you will be a delightful land," says the LORD of Hosts.
{3:13} "Your words have been stout against me," says the LORD. "Yet
you say, 'What have we spoken against you?' {3:14} You have said, 'It
is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have followed
his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD
of Hosts? {3:15} Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work
wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.' {3:16} Then
those who feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD
listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for
those who feared the LORD, and who honored his name. {3:17} They shall
be mine," says the LORD of Hosts, "my own possession in the day that I
make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves
him. {3:18} Then you shall return and discern between the righteous
and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve
him.
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1} "LORD" or "GOD" (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter
Holy Name of God
[2] {1:9} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."
[3] {1:14} The word translated "Lord" (mixed case) is "Adonai."
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