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MAL 01:01 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by
Malachi.
MAL 01:02 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,
MAL 01:03 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his
heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
MAL 01:04 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.
MAL 01:05 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD
will be magnified from the border of Israel.
MAL 01:06 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?
MAL 01:07 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.
MAL 01:08 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.
MAL 01:09 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.
MAL 01:10 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.
MAL 01:11 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.
MAL 01:12 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.
MAL 01:13 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.
MAL 01:14 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.
MAL 02:01 And now, O ye priests, this commandment [is] for you.
MAL 02:02 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.
MAL 02:03 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.
MAL 02:04 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment
unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of
hosts.
MAL 02:05 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.
MAL 02:06 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.
MAL 02:07 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.
MAL 02:08 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.
MAL 02:09 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.
MAL 02:10 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?
MAL 02:11 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.
MAL 02:12 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.
MAL 02:13 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.
MAL 02:14 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.
MAL 02:15 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.
MAL 02:16 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.
MAL 02:17 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?
MAL 03:01 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.
MAL 03:02 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:
MAL 03:03 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.
MAL 03:04 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be
pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former
years.
MAL 03:05 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
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