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Malachi Malachi one one the oracle of the word of

the Lord to Israel by Malachi.

I have loved you, says the Lord. But you say,

how have you loved us? Is not Esau, Jacob's brother,

declares the Lord. Yet I have loved Jacob. But Esau

I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country

and left his heritage to jackals of the desert. If

Edom says, we are shattered, but we will rebuild the ruins.

The Lord of Hosts says, they may build, but I

will tear down, and they will be called the wicked

country and the people with whom the Lord is angry.

Forever your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say.

Great is the Lord Lord beyond the border of Israel.

A son honors his father, and a servant his master.

If then I am a father, where is my honor?

And if I am a master, where is my fear?

Says the Lord of Hosts to you, O priests who

despise by name?

But you say, how have we despised your name.

By offering polluted food upon my altar?

But you say, how have we polluted you.

By saying that the Lord's table may be despised. When

you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil?

And when you offer those that are lame or sick?

Is that not evil? Present that to your governor? Will

he accept you or show you favor? Says the Lord

of Hosts. And now entreat the favor of God, that

he may be graces to us. With such a gift

from your hand. Will he show favor to any of you,

says the Lord of Hosts. Oh, so that there were

one among you who would shut the doors, that you

might not kindle fire on my altar in vain. I

have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of Hosts.

And I will not accept an offering from your hand.

For from the rising of the sun to its setting,

my name will be great among the nations, and in

every place incense will be offered to my name, And

a pure offering for my name will be great among

the nations, says the Lord of Hosts. But you profane

it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted

and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.

But you say what a wariness this is, and you

snort at it, says the Lord of Hosts. You bring

what has been taken by violence, or is lame or sick.

And this you bring as your offering, shall I accept

that from your hand, says the Lord. Cursed be the

cheat who has a male in his flock and vows it,

and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For

I am a great king, says the Lord of Hosts,

and my name will be feared among the nations.

Melachi too.

And now o priests, this command is for you. If

you will not listen, if you will not take it

to heart to give honor to my name, says the

Lord of Hosts, then I will send the curse upon you,

and I will curse your blessings. Indeed I have already

cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. Behold,

I will rebuke your offspring and spread dung on your faces,

the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken

away with it. So shall you know that I have

sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi

may stand, says the Lord of Hosts. My covenant with

him was one of life and peace, and I gave

them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and

he feared me. He stood in awe of my name.

True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was

found on his lips. He walked with me in peace

and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity. For the

lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should

seek construction from his mouth, for he is the messenger

of the Lord of Hosts. But you have turned aside

from the way. You have caused many to stumble. By

your instructions. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says

the Lord of Hosts. And so I make you despise

then a base before all the people, inasmuch as you

do not keep my ways, but show partiality in your instruction.

Have we not all one father? Has not one God

created us? Why then are we faithless to one another,

profaning the covenant of our fathers. Judah has been faithless,

and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusal.

For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord which

he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign God.

May the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob.

Any descendant of the man who does this, who brings

an offering to the Lord of Hosts and this second

thing you do. You cover the Lord's altar with tears,

with weeping and groaning, because he no longer regards the

offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. But

you say, why does he not? Because the Lord was

witnessed between you and the wife of your youth, to

whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion

and your wife by covenant? Did he not make them

one with a portion of the spirit in their union?

And what was the one God seeking godly offspring? So

guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you

be faithless to the wife of your youth. For the

man who does not love his wife but divorces her,

says the Lord. The God of Israel, covers his garment

with violence, says the Lord of Hosts. So guard yourselves

and your spirit, and do not be faithless. You have

wearied the Lord with your words. But you say, how

have we wearied him by saying.

Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of

the Lord, and he delights in them.

Or by asking where.

Is the God of justice?

Melachi three, Behold, I send my messenger, and he will

prepare the way before me and the Lord whom you

seek will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger

of the Covenant in whom you delight behold, he is coming,

says the Lord of Hosts. But who can endure the

day of his coming, and who who could stand what

he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and

like fuller soap. He will sit as a refiner and

purifier of silver. And he will purify the sons of

Levi and refine them like gold and silver, And they

will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord. Then the

offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord,

as in the days of old, and as in former years.

Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I

will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers,

against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the

hired worker in his rages, the widow and the fatherless,

against those who thrust aside the sojourner. And do not

fear me, says the Lord of Hosts, For I the Lord,

do not change.

Therefore, you, o, children of Jacob, are not consumed from

the days of your father's You have turned to side

from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me,

and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts.

But you say, how shall we return? Will man rob God?

Yet you are robbing me? But you say, how have

we robbed you? In your tithes and contributions? You are

cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me. The

whole nation of you. Bring the full tithe into the storehouse,

that there may be food in my house, and thereby

put me to the tests, says the Lord of Hosts.

If I will not open the windows of heaven for

you and pour down for you a blessing until there

is no more need, I will rebuke the devourer for you,

so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil,

and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear,

says the Lord of Hosts. Then all nations will call

you blessed, for you will be a land of delight,

says the Lord of Hosts. Your words have been hard

against me, says the Lord.

But you say, how have we spoken against you? You

have said it.

Is fain to serve God. What is the prophet of

our keeping his charge?

Or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of Hosts.

And now recall the arrogant blesseeth evil doers not only prosper,

but they put God to the test, and they escape.

Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another.

The Lord paid attention and heard them, and the book

of remembrance was written before him. Of those who feared

the Lord and esteemed.

His name, they shall be mine, says the Lord of Hosts.

In the day when I make up my treasured possessions,

and I will spare them as a man spares his

son who serves him. Then once more you shall see

the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one

who serves God and one who does not serve.

Him Malachi four.

For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven,

when all the arrogant and all evil doers will be stubble.

The day that is coming shall set them a blaze,

says the Lord of Hosts, so that it will leave

them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear

my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing

in its wings. You shall go out, leaping like calves

from the stall, and you shall tread down the wicket.

For they will be ashes under the soles of your feet.

On the day when I act, says the Lord of Hosts,

Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and

rules that I commanded him at Horeb. For all Israel behold,

I will send you Elijah, the Prophet before the great

and awesome day of the Lord. Come, and he will

turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the

hearts of children to their fathers. Lest I come and

strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.