Malachi

Malachi

righteous and that your works are

Chapter 1 mine, and ye shall continue to say,
The Lord will be magnified from
1 The burden of the word of the the border of Israel, for we are the
Lord given to Israel by Malachi; children of God, and there are no
and his words are a burden unto other; for He is our master alone.
them because of their wickedness: 6 A son honoureth his father, and
2 I have loved you, saith the Lord. a servant his master: if then I be a
Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou father, and you my children,
loved us? For ye suffer; but this is where is mine honour? and if I be
not by my hand. Ye suffer a master, where is my fear?
because of your own sins, for I Behold, your leaders are your
am no respecter of men, and treat masters and the devil your god.
those who are wicked as those Thus saith the Lord of hosts unto
who are righteous. Was not Esau your leaders, O priests, that
Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: despise my name. And ye say,
3 Yet ye believe that I loved Jacob Wherein have we despised thy
and hated Esau. But it was your name?
wickedness that laid his mountains 7 Ye offer polluted bread upon
and his heritage waste for the mine altar and give of this bread
dragons of the wilderness. For I to my people to eat; and ye say,
have loved him as I loved you. Wherein have we polluted thee?
4 Whereas Israel saith, We are Ye have polluted the people by the
scourged of the Lord and we are bread which ye give them to eat
impoverished, but we will return and ye say, The table of the Lord
and build up the desolate places; is contemptible because the people
But thus saith the Lord of hosts, are wicked; but ye are they who
They shall build, but if they shall are wicked and have corrupted
not build according to my word, the table of the Lord; for ye blind
they will be thrown down; and the the minds of this people and by
Gentiles shall call them, The your bread they are made sick
border of wickedness, and, The and lame.
people against whom their Lord 8 And if ye offer the blind for a
hath indignation for ever. righteous sacrifice unto me, is it
5 And your eyes shall see what not evil? and if ye offer the lame
hath been done to you, but ye and sick, is it not evil? Go unto
shall still believe that ye are those who rule over you and offer
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it now unto thy governor; will he 11 For from the rising of the sun
be pleased with you, or accept an even unto the going down of the
unrighteous offering, because in same, my name shall be great
vanity ye believe ye are better among the Gentiles; and in every
than the offering which ye give place incense shall be offered unto
because of thy person? saith the my name, and a pure offering
LORD of hosts. because they shall reject you as
9 And now, because my people my priests. For they shall know
suffer they come unto you and that I am no respecter of persons
plead with you, their leaders, and that they are my children,
saying, we pray you, beseech God even as ye believe ye are. And my
that he will be gracious unto us; name shall be great among those
and this they believe because ye who you consider are the heathen,
have convinced them of your saith the LORD of hosts.
person, that ye are my priests. 12 But ye have profaned my
Behold, this they believe because name, in that ye say, The table of
this hath been placed in their the LORD is polluted; and the fruit
hearts by your means, which hath thereof, even his meat, is
lifted you up above them. Yet will contemptible. And ye blame those
I regard your persons over them? whom ye have led and by whose
saith the LORD of hosts. fruits ye shall also be judged.
10 Who is there, even among you, Blame not their burden upon
who would shut the doors against them, for ye bear the whole
the people so they receive weight.
nothing? Why would they then 13 Ye said also, Behold, what a
come to the doors, if not to have weariness is it to bear their
them opened unto them? Would burden! And ye have snuffed at it
they come for nought? Neither do blaming the people for the
ye kindle fire on mine altar for offerings they present before me,
nought. But I have no pleasure in saith the Lord of hosts; and ye
those of you who are chosen to brought that which was torn, and
present offerings unto me for my the lame, and the sick; thus ye
people, saith the Lord of hosts, brought an offering that has been
neither will I accept an offering at made at your hand. Should I
your hand anymore. For ye have accept this of your hand? saith the
set yourselves above my people, Lord.
and have set my people above the 14 But cursed be the deceiver, who
Gentiles, who are the children of hath in his flock a male, which is
Esau who I also loved. pure, but who voweth, and
sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt
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thing which he has corrupted; for people for sacrifice, saith the Lord
I am a just King, saith the LORD of hosts.
of hosts, and my name shall not be 5 My covenant was with him of
dreadful among the heathen who life and peace; and I gave my
come unto me with a broken heart commandments to him for the fear
and a contrite spirit; who maketh wherewith he feared that he would
a righteous offering unto me of not have life and peace. But from
that which is pure. my name he shall receive eternal
life, which is that thing which he
feared he would not have from
Chapter 2 me, and thus he was afraid before
my name.
1 And now, O ye priests, who have 6 The law of truth was in his
corrupted my people and mouth, and while iniquity was not
presented them as an unrighteous found in his lips, he walked with
offering before me, this me in peace and equity, and did
commandment is for you. turn many away from iniquity.
2 If ye will not hear and repent, And he sanctified his servants, the
and if ye will not lay it to heart, to house of Levi, that they might
give glory unto my name, and not keep the people in remembrance
to your own saith the LORD of of me to fulfill the covenant I
hosts, I will even send a curse have made with them.
upon you, and I will curse the 7 For the priest's lips should keep
blessings ye have received; yea, I knowledge, and the people should
have cursed them already, because seek the law at his mouth: for he is
ye do not lay it to heart. the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
3 Behold, my curse shall be that I 8 But ye are departed out of the
will allow you to corrupt your own way; and ye have caused many to
seed, and spread dung upon your stumble at the law; ye have
own faces, even the dung of your corrupted the covenant of
solemn feasts; and in that day one Abraham which was given unto
shall take you away with your the sons of Levi, saith the Lord of
solemn feasts and your assemblies hosts.
and your offerings and sacrifices. 9 Therefore, in the day of the
4 And ye shall know that I have Lord I shall make you
sent my commandments unto you, contemptible and base before all
that my covenant might be with the people, according as ye have
you as it was with Abraham, the not kept my ways, but have been
father of the house of Levi, who partial in the law and have broken
were set apart to prepare the mine everlasting covenant. For
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ye have taught this people that offering any more, or receiveth it

they are a chosen people above with good will at your hand.
the heathens; but it is the heathen 14 Yet ye say, Why? Because the
that I love; for he shall receive me Lord hath been witness between
in righteousness. thee and the wife of thy youth,
10 Have we not all one father? who is also thy brother from
hath not one God created us? why Jacob, against whom thou hast
do we deal treacherously every dealt treacherously: yet is she thy
man against his brother, by companion, and the wife of thy
profaning the covenant of our covenant which was given to
fathers? Jacob of Abraham for both of his
11 Judah hath dealt treacherously sons?
with those who are not of the 15 And did not he make one
covenant, and an abomination is covenant unto all? Yet Jacob had
committed in Israel and in the residue of the spirit and sought
Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned that which was righteous before
the holiness of the LORD by that God. And why was one covenant
which he hath done unto his given unto all? That he might seek
brother. Yea, he hath profaned a godly seed. Therefore take heed
the God which he loved, and hath to your spirit alone, and let none
married the daughter of a strange deal treacherously against the wife
god. of his youth; for the Lord loveth
12 And in the day of the Lord he all flesh the same.
will cut off the man that doeth this, 16 For the Lord, the God of Israel,
the master and the scholar, who saith that he hateth putting away
putteth themselves above another, one because of the other; for one
believing that he is righteous covereth violence against another
because he cometh out of the with his garment, saith the Lord of
tabernacles of Jacob; and him that hosts: therefore take heed to your
offereth an unrighteous offering spirit, that ye deal not
unto the LORD of hosts shall also treacherously one with another.
be cut off. 17 Ye have wearied the LORD
13 And this wickedness have ye with your words. Yet ye say,
done again. And ye cover the altar Wherein have we wearied him?
of the LORD with tears, with When ye say, Every one that doeth
weeping, and with crying out, but evil is good in the sight of the
not in righteousness, but through Lord, and he delighteth in them;
the misery of your soul which or, Where is the God of judgment?
cannot offer a pure offering, And this ye say because ye take
insomuch that he regardeth not the that which is evil and make it
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good, and that which is good, ye the people and led them astray,
make evil. filling them with dross. And he
shall purge them as gold and
silver, that they may offer unto the
Chapter 3 Lord an offering in righteousness.
For behold, all their offerings
1 Behold, before the day of the they have polluted, and there are
Lord I will send my messenger, none who are pure. But they
and he shall prepare the way shall know good at that day, that
before me by preparing the elect they might cast out the evil from
as a righteous offering. And he among them.
shall teach my will and show 4 Then shall the offering of Judah
those things which are good, and and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the
also those which are bad, even Lord, as in the days of old, and as
that the whole earth might know a it was in former years before the
righteous judgment. And this is sons of Levi corrupted it.
my messenger, even the Lord, 5 And I will come near to you to
whom ye seek, who shall suddenly judgment, even that ye might
come to his temple, even the judge righteously, both good and
messenger of the covenant, whom evil; and I will be a swift witness
ye delight in and claim that ye against the sorcerers, and against
follow and in whose name ye the adulterers, and against false
speak; behold, he shall come, saith swearers, and against those that
the Lord of hosts. oppress the hireling in his wages,
2 But who may abide the day of the widow, and the fatherless, and
his coming? And who shall stand that turn aside the stranger from
before him with clean hands when his right, and fear not that which
he appeareth? For he is like a they do against me, saith the Lord
refiner's fire, which is used to of hosts.
remove the impurities of element, 6 For I am the Lord, I change not;
and like fullers' soap, which is therefore, ye sons of Jacob, so that
used to clean the works of his ye are not consumed by the heat of
hands. that day, repent of the evil of your
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and ways. Seek to do good. Yea, seek
purifier of silver and of gold. And to care for the poor among you
with a fervent heat shall the whose faces ye grind and whose
elements of this earth be refined, substance ye steal for yourselves.
even the gold and silver filled with For I have given my ordinances
dross. And he shall purify the that ye all might become one and
sons of Levi, who have corrupted treat each other equally, even as I
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have treated the children of Yea, bring back that which ye

Abraham and Issac; have robbed from me and prove
7 But even from the days of your me now herewith, saith the LORD
fathers ye have corrupted mine of hosts, if I will not open you the
ordinances, and have not kept windows of heaven, and pour
them as I have commanded you. upon you a blessing, that there
Return unto me, and I will return shall not be room enough to
unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. receive it. For without the rain
But ye said, Wherein shall we from heaven, how shall the vine
return? Do we not fulfill the law receive her nourishment?
required of us in our tithes and Behold, except I do this, the leaf
offerings? shall fall off from the vine, and
8 Behold, ye wicked servants: the fig from the tree before its
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have time.
robbed me. But ye say, Wherein 11 But if ye return unto me and
have we robbed thee? Ye have keep my commandments, I will
robbed me in the tithes and rebuke the devourer for your
offerings that ye have taken of the sakes, and he shall not destroy the
people for yourselves. fruits of your ground; neither shall
9 And because ye have done this your vine cast her fruit before the
ye are cursed with a curse, and the time in the field, saith the Lord of
windows of heaven have been hosts.
closed so that ye receive no rain 12 And all nations shall call you
upon the earth, which would blessed because there shall be no
bring the good fruits of the field poor among you, neither shall
forth, even the fruit that giveth there be inequality; for ye shall be
eternal life. But ye receive no a delightsome land, saith the Lord
rain, for ye have robbed me, even of hosts.
this whole nation. 13 Behold, your words have been
10 Bring ye all the tithes and stout against me, saith the Lord.
offerings back into my storehouse, Yet ye say, What have we spoken
that there may be meat in mine so much against thee?
house for those who are hungry. 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve
Yea, your temples and your God as our fathers before us; and
synagogues have used up the what profit is it to us that we have
meat. Your substance and kept his ordinance and given away
priestly apparel have not covered the tithes and offerings so that we
your nakedness as ye suppose, but gain not from them? And what
have taken from the widow and has it profited us that we have
the fatherless and the stranger.
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walked mournfully before the Lord wicked works which they have
of hosts? done. Then shall they all know
15 And ye call the proud happy, the difference between him that
saith the Lord; Yea, they that serveth God and him that serveth
work wickedness are set up before him not.
the people, even the leaders who
shall rise in the pride of their
hearts, even to the envying of Chapter 4
those who follow them; yea, they
that tempt God are even delivered 1 For, behold, the day cometh,
in their wickedness, which they that the elements of the earth
think is a blessing from heaven. shall melt with fervent heat, even
But how can ye receive a blessing this silver and gold filled with
from a window that is shut? dross shall burn in an oven until it
16 And in those days there shall is purified; and all the proud, yea,
be they that fear the Lord and keep and all that do wickedly, shall be
his commandments. And these as the stubble of the field after the
shall speak often one to another. harvest; which is burned to
And they shall have it given unto prepare the earth for a new
them to judge between good and planting; and the day that cometh
evil, making a righteous judgment shall burn them up, saith the Lord
in the works that they do. And the of hosts, that it shall leave them
Lord shall hearken, and hear neither root nor branch from
them, and a book of remembrance which will grow again the
shall be written before him for corrupted fruit of the vine.
them that fear the Lord and receive 2 But unto you that fear my name
his name in their foreheads. shall the Sun of righteousness arise
17 And they shall be mine, saith with healing in his wings; and the
the LORD of hosts, in that day windows of heaven shall be
when I make up my jewels, yea, opened up so that this light can
even when I shall purge the dross shine upon you and warm you
from my gold and my silver; And and give you comfort. And ye
the heat of my furnace will not shall go forth, and grow up as
burn them up; for I will spare calves of the stall, which are fed
them, as a man spareth his own by the hand of the Lord.
son who serveth him and receiveth 3 And he shall lead you forth
a just wage in his hire. from the stalls among the wicked,
18 Then shall the wicked return, and ye shall tread upon them,
and discern for themselves even as grown cattle walk upon
between the righteous and the the remnants of a burnt field; for
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they shall be ashes under the soles

of your feet in the day that I shall
do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
4 And now, I would that ye
should remember the law of
Moses my servant, which I
commanded unto him in Horeb for
all Israel, with the statutes and
judgments that I gave unto your
fathers that they might look
forward to the day of the Lord.
And ye are their children,
therefore, the law that I have
given them, even so shall ye do.
5 But in the last days the heart of
the children shall be turned away
from the law and the statutes and
judgments of their fathers; and
their fathers shall mourn for
them. For I have promised their
fathers and have made my
covenant with them. But their
children do not know them.
6 Behold, I will send you Elijah
the prophet before the coming of
the great and dreadful day of the
Lord; And he shall plant in the
hearts of the children the
promises made to their fathers,
lest I come and smite the earth
with a curse and the whole earth
be utterly wasted at his coming..