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Book 39 Malachi
39:001:001 The burden of the word
of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
39:001:002 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,
39:001:003 And I hated Esau, and
laid his mountains and his heritage
waste for the dragons
of the wilderness.
39:001:004 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.
39:001:005 And your eyes shall
see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be
magnified from the
border of Israel.
39:001:006 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?
39:001:007 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.
39:001:008 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.
39:001:009 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.
39:001:010 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.
39:001:011 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.
39:001:012 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.
39:001:013 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.
39:001:014 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.
39:002:001 And now, O ye priests,
this commandment is for you.
39:002:002 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.
39:002:003 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.
39:002:004 And ye shall know that
I have sent this commandment unto you,
that my covenant might
be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
39:002:005 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.
39:002:006 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.
39:002:007 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.
39:002:008 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.
39:002:009 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.
39:002:010 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?
39:002:011 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.
39:002:012 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.
39:002:013 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.
39:002:014 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.
39:002:015 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.
39:002:016 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.
39:002:017 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?
39:003:001 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.
39:003:002 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:
39:003:003 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.
39:003:004 Then shall the offering
of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant
unto the LORD, as in
the days of old, and as in former years.
39:003:005 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.
39:003:006 For I am the LORD, I
change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob
are not consumed.
39:003:007 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?
39:003:008 Will a man rob God? Yet
ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein
have we robbed thee? In
tithes and offerings.
39:003:009 Ye are cursed with a
curse: for ye have robbed me, even this
whole nation.
39:003:010 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.
39:003:011 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.
39:003:012 And all nations shall
call you blessed: for ye shall be a
delightsome land, saith
the LORD of hosts.
39:003:013 Your words have been
stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye
say, What have we
spoken so much against thee?
39:003:014 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?
39:003:015 And now we call the
proud happy; yea, they that work
wickedness are set up;
yea, they that tempt God are even
delivered.
39:003:016 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.
39:003:017 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.
39:003:018 Then shall ye return,
and discern between the righteous and
the wicked, between him
that serveth God and him that serveth
him not.
39:004:001 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.
39:004:002 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.
39:004:003 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.
39:004:004 Remember ye the law of
Moses my servant, which I commanded
unto him in Horeb for
all Israel, with the statutes and
judgments.
39:004:005 Behold, I will send you
Elijah the prophet before the coming
of the great and
dreadful day of the LORD:
39:004:006 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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