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<h1>Malachi</h1>
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<span>
[ <a href="#1">1</a> | <a href="#2">2</a> | <a href="#3">3</a> |
<a href="#4">4</a> ]</span>
<hr width="50%" /><div class="book">
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="1">Malachi 1</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand
of Malachi.</span></li>
<li><span>I have loved you, saith the Lord: and you have said:
Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob, saith
the Lord, and I have loved Jacob,</span></li>
<li><span>But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a
wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the
desert.</span></li>
<li><span>But if Edom shall say: We are destroyed, but we will
return and build up what hath been destroyed: thus saith the Lord
of hosts: They shall build up, and I will throw down: and they
shall be called the borders of wickedness, and the people with whom
the Lord is angry for ever.</span></li>
<li><span>And your eyes shall see, and you shall say: The Lord be
magnified upon the border of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master:
if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master,
where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts.</span></li>
<li><span>To you, O priests, that despise my name, and have said:
Wherein have we despised thy name? You offer polluted bread upon my
altar, and you say: Wherein have we polluted thee? In that you say:
The table of the Lord is contemptible.</span></li>
<li><span>If you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and
if you offer the lame and the sick, is it not evil? offer it to thy
prince, if he will be pleased with it, or if he will regard thy
face, saith the Lord of hosts.</span></li>
<li><span>And now beseech ye the face of God, that he may have
mercy on you, (for by your hand hath this been done,) if by any
means he will receive your faces, saith the Lord of
hosts.</span></li>
<li><span>Who is there among you, that will shut the doors, and
will kindle the fire on my altar gratis? I have no pleasure in you,
saith the Lord of hosts: and I will not receive a gift of your
hand.</span></li>
<li><span>For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my
name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is
sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my
name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of
hosts.</span></li>
<li><span>And you have profaned it in that you say: The table of
the Lord is defiled: and that which is laid thereupon is
contemptible with the fire that devoureth it.</span></li>
<li><span>And you have said: Behold of our labour, and you puffed
it away, saith the Lord of hosts, and you brought in of rapine the
lame, and the sick, and brought in an offering: shall I accept it
at your hands, saith the Lord?</span></li>
<li><span>Cursed is the deceitful man that hath in his flock a
male, and making a vow offereth in sacrifice that which is feeble
to the Lord: for I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my
name is dreadful among the Gentiles.</span></li>
</ol>
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<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="2">Malachi 2</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And now, O ye priests, this commandment is to
you.</span></li>
<li><span>If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to
heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will
send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will
curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.</span></li>
<li><span>Behold, I will cast the shoulder to you, and I will
scatter upon your face the dung of your solemnities, and it shall
take you away with it.</span></li>
<li><span>And you shall know that I sent you this commandment, that
my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of
hosts.</span></li>
<li><span>My covenant was with him of life and peace: and I gave
him fear: and he feared me, and he was afraid before my
name.</span></li>
<li><span>The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not
found in his lips: he walked with me in peace, and in equity, and
turned many away from iniquity.</span></li>
<li><span>For the lips of the priest shall keep knowledge, and they
shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the
Lord of hosts.</span></li>
<li><span>But you have departed out of the way, and have caused
many to stumble at the law: you have made void the covenant of
Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore have I also made you contemptible, and base
before all people, as you have not kept my ways, and have accepted
persons in the law.</span></li>
<li><span>Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?
why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the
covenant of our fathers?</span></li>
<li><span>Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been
committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath profaned the
holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter
of a strange God.</span></li>
<li><span>The Lord will cut off the man that hath done this, both
the master, and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and
him that offereth an offering to the Lord of hosts.</span></li>
<li><span>And this again have you done, you have covered the altar
of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and bellowing, so that I have
no more a regard to sacrifice, neither do I accept any atonement at
your hands.</span></li>
<li><span>And you have said: For what cause? Because the Lord hath
been witness between thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou
hast despised: yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy
covenant.</span></li>
<li><span>Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his
spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your
spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.</span></li>
<li><span>When thou shalt hate her put her away, saith the Lord the
God of Israel: but iniquity shall cover his garment, saith the Lord
of hosts, keep your spirit, and despise not.</span></li>
<li><span>You have wearied the Lord with your words, and you said:
Wherein have we wearied him? In that you say: Every one that doth
evil, is good in the sight of the Lord, and such please him: or
surely where is the God of judgment?</span></li>
</ol>
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<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="3">Malachi 3</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way
before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the
angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple.
Behold he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts.</span></li>
<li><span>And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming?
and who shall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and
like the fuller's herb:</span></li>
<li><span>And he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver, and
he shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall refine them as gold,
and as silver, and they shall offer sacrifices to the Lord in
justice.</span></li>
<li><span>And the sacrifice of Juda and of Jerusalem shall please
the Lord, as in the days of old, and in the ancient
years.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy
witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and
them that oppress the hireling in his wages; the widows, and the
fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith
the Lord of hosts.</span></li>
<li><span>For I am the Lord, and I change not: and you the sons of
Jacob are not consumed.</span></li>
<li><span>For from the days of your fathers you have departed from
my ordinances, and have not kept them: Return to me, and I will
return to you, saith the Lord of hosts. And you have said: Wherein
shall we return?</span></li>
<li><span>Shall a man afflict God? for you afflict me. And you have
said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in
firstfruits.</span></li>
<li><span>And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even
the whole nation of you.</span></li>
<li><span>Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may
be meat in my house, and try me in this, saith the Lord: if I open
not unto you the flood-gates of heaven, and pour you out a blessing
even to abundance.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will rebuke for your sakes the devourer, and he
shall not spoil the fruit of your land: neither shall the vine in
the field be barren, saith the Lord of hosts.</span></li>
<li><span>And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be
a delightful land, saith the Lord of hosts.</span></li>
<li><span>Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the
Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You
have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit
is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked
sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?</span></li>
<li><span>Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they
that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and
are preserved.</span></li>
<li><span>Then they that feared the Lord spoke every one with his
neighbour: and the Lord gave ear, and heard it: and a book of
remembrance was written before him for them that fear the Lord, and
think on his name.</span></li>
<li><span>And they shall be my special possession, saith the Lord
of hosts, in the day that I do judgment: and I will spare them, as
a man spareth his son that serveth him.</span></li>
<li><span>And you shall return, and shall see the difference
between the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God,
and him that serveth him not.</span></li>
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<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="4">Malachi 4</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: and
all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the
day that cometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it
shall not leave them root, nor branch.</span></li>
<li><span>But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall
arise, and health in his wings: and you shall go forth, and shall
leap like calves of the herd.</span></li>
<li><span>And you shall tread down the wicked when they shall be
ashes under the sole of your feet in the day that I do this, saith
the Lord of hosts.</span></li>
<li><span>Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded
him in Horeb for all Israel, the precepts, and
judgments.</span></li>
<li><span>Behold I will send you Elias the prophet, before the
coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>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 strike the earth with anathema.</span></li>
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