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Malachi

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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. 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: 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. 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. 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. 6 For I am the LORD, I change not; there­fore ye sons of Ja­cob are not con­sumed. 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? 8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Where­in have we robbed thee? In tithes and of­fer­ings. 9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole na­tion. 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. 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. 12 And all na­tions shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a de­light­some land, saith the LORD of hosts. 13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spo­ken ­so much against thee? 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? 15 And now we call the proud hap­py; yea, they that work wicked­ness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even de­liv­ered. 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. 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. 18 Then shall ye re­turn, and dis­cern be­tween the righ­teous and the wicked, be­tween him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.