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1 Scroll 11 The 12 Prophets (Malachi).
The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.

2 I have loved you, said the LORD.
Yet ye say, In what have Thou loved us?
Was not Esau Jacob's brother?
Said the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

3 I hated Esau, and laid his mountains,
and his heritage waste for the monsters of the wilderness.

4 Whereas Edom said, We are impoverished,
but we will return and build the desolate places;
thus says the LORD of Sabaoth,
They shall build, but I will throw down;
and they shall call them, The border of wickedness,
and, The people against whom the LORD has indignation forever.

5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say,
The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.

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A son honours his father, and a servant his master:
if then I AM a father, where is My honour?
And if I AM a master, where is My fear?
Says the LORD of Sabaoth,
to you, priests, that despise My Name.
And ye say, In what have we despised Thy Name?

7 Ye offer polluted bread upon My Altar?
And ye say, In what have we polluted Thee?
In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.

8 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 to Thy governor; will He be pleased with Thee,
or accept Thy person?
Says the LORD of Sabaoth.

9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that He will be gracious to us:
this has been by your means: will He regard your person?
Says the LORD of Sabaoth.

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Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for naught?
Neither do ye kindle fire on My Altar for naught.
I have no pleasure in you,
says the LORD of Sabaoth,
neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

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For from the rising of the sun even to the setting of the same,
My Name shall be great among the Gentiles;
and in every place incense shall be offered to My Name,
and a pure offering: for My Name shall be great among the heathen,
says the LORD of Sabaoth.

12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say,
The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit of it,
even His provision, is contemptible.

13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it!
And ye have snuffed at it,
says the LORD of Sabaoth;
and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame,
and the sick; thus ye brought an offering:
should I accept this from your hand?
Said the LORD.

14 But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male,
and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a corrupt thing:
for I AM a Great King,
says the LORD of Sabaoth,
and My Name is dreadful among the heathen.

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And now, ye priests, this Commandment is for you.

2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to My Name,
says the LORD of Sabaoth,
I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings;
yes, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces,
even the dung of your solemn Festivals; and one shall take you away with it.

4 And ye shall know that I have sent this Commandment to you,
that My Covenant might be with Levi,
says the LORD of Sabaoth.

5 My Covenant was with him of life and peace;
and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared Me,
and was afraid before My Name.

6 The Law of truth was in His mouth, and iniquity was not found in His lips:
he walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

7 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 Sabaoth.

8 But ye have departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the Law;
ye have corrupted the Covenant of Levi,
says the LORD of Sabaoth.

9 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.

10 Have we not all One Father? Has not One GOD created us?
Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother,
by profaning the Covenant of our fathers?

11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem;
for Judah has profaned the Holiness of the LORD whom He loved,
and has married the daughter of a strange god.

12 The LORD will cut off the man that does this, him who wakes and him who answers [master and scholar], out of the Tabernacles of Jacob,
and him that offers an offering to the LORD of Sabaoth.

13 And this have ye done again, covering the Altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out,
insomuch that he regards not the offering any more, or receives it with good-will at your hand.

14 Yet ye say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between Thee and the wife of Thy youth,
against whom Thou have dealt treacherously:
yet is she Thy companion, and the wife of Thy Covenant.

15 And did He not make one? Yet had He the residue of the spirit. And why one?
He was seeking a seed of GOD Therefore take heed to your spirit,
and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, said,
that He hates putting away: for one covers violence with His garment,
says the LORD of Sabaoth:
therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

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Ye have wearied the LORD with your words.
Yet ye say, In what have we wearied Him? When ye say,
Every one that does evil is good in the eyes of the LORD, and He delights in them;
or, Where is the God of judgment?

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Behold, I send My messenger;
before Thy face, who shall prepare Thy way before Thee; Mat 11:10
and the Lord, whom ye seek,
will suddenly come to His Temple,
even the messenger of the Covenant,
whom ye delight in: behold, He will Come,
says the LORD of Sabaoth.

2 But who may abide the Day of His Coming?
And who shall stand when He appears?
For He is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap.

3 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 to the LORD an offering in righteousness.

4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to the LORD,
as in the days of old, and as in former years.

5 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, says the LORD of Sabaoth.

6 For I AM the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

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Even from the days of your fathers,
ye have gone away from My Statutes, and have not kept them.
Return to Me, and I will return to you,
says the LORD of Sabaoth.
But ye said, In what shall we return?

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Will a man rob GOD? Yet ye have robbed Me.
But ye say, In what 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 store-house,
that there may be food in My house,
and prove Me now with this,
says the LORD of Sabaoth,
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 I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground;
neither shall your vine miscarry against you in the field,
says the LORD of Sabaoth.

12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land,
says the LORD of Sabaoth.

13 Your words have been stout against Me,
said 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 Sabaoth?

15 And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are built up;
even they that tempt GOD are delivered.

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Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another:
and the LORD listened, 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,
says the LORD of Sabaoth,
in that day when I make up my possession; and I will spare them,
as a man spares his own son that serves him.

18 Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked,
between him that serves GOD and him that serves Him not.

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1 For behold, the day comes,
that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, and all that do wickedly,
shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up,
says the LORD of Sabaoth,
that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

2 But to you that fear My Name, shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings;
and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet,
in the day that I shall do this,
says the LORD of Sabaoth.

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Remember ye the Law of Moses My servant,
which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, with the Statutes and Judgments.

5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and tremendous Day of the LORD: Luk 1:17

6 He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, Luk 1:17
lest I come and smite the Earth with a curse.