[Malachi 1]
1:1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
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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,
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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[Malachi 2]
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
[Malachi 3]
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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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3:6 For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of
Jacob are not consumed.
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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?
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3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say,
Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
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3:9 Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me,
[even] this whole nation.
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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].
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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[Malachi 4]
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the
coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
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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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