MALACHI
Malachi 1
1 The burden of the word of Yahweh to
2 I have loved you, saith Yahweh. Yet ye say, Wherein
hast Thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith
Yahweh: yet I loved Jacob,
3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the
dragons of the wilderness.
4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the
desolate places; thus saith Yahweh of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw
down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people
against whom Yahweh hath indignation for ever.
5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Yahweh will be magnified from the
border of
6 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 Yahweh of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise My
name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised Thy name?
7 Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar; and ye say, Wherein
have we polluted Thee? In that ye say, The table of
Yahweh [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 unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith Yahweh of hosts.
9 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
Yahweh of hosts.
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 Yahweh of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
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 Yahweh of hosts.
12 But ye have profaned Me, in that ye say, The table
of Yahweh [is] polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat, [is]
contemptible.
13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness [is it]! and ye have snuffed at it, saith Yahweh 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
Yahweh.
14 But cursed [be] the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto
Yahweh a corrupt thing: for I [am] a great King, saith Yahweh of hosts, and My
name [is] dreadful among the heathen.
1 And now, O 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 unto
My name, saith Yahweh 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.
3 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.
4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that My covenant might be with Levi, saith Yahweh of hosts.
5 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.
6 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.
7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at
his mouth: for he [is] the messenger of Yahweh of hosts.
8 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 Yahweh of hosts.
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? hath not one God
created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by
profaning the covenant of our fathers?
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12 Yahweh 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 Yahweh of hosts.
13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of Yahweh 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.
14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Yahweh 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.
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.
16 For Yahweh, the God of Israel, saith
that He hateth putting away: for [one] covereth
violence with his garment, saith Yahweh of hosts: therefore take heed to your
spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
17 Ye have wearied Yahweh 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 Yahweh, and He delighteth
in them; or, Where [is] the God of judgment?
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 Yahweh 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
Yahweh an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of
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 Yahweh of hosts.
6 For I [am] Yahweh, 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 Yahweh 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 [have] cursed Me 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land,
saith Yahweh of hosts.
13 Your words have been stout against Me, saith
Yahweh. 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh spake often one to another: and Yahweh
hearkened, and heard [it], and a book of remembrance was written before Him for
them that feared Yahweh, and that thought upon His name.
17 And they shall be Mine, saith Yahweh 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.
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the
proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh
shall burn them up, saith Yahweh of hosts, that it shall leave them neither
root nor branch.
2 But unto 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], saith Yahweh of hosts.
4 Remember ye the law of Moses My servant, which I
commanded unto him in Horeb for all
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and
dreadful day of Yahweh:
6 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 smite the earth with a curse.