39_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.
39_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:
39_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.
39_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.
39_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 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.
39_MAL_03_06 for I [ am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
39_MAL_03_07 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?
39_MAL_03_08 will A man rob God? yet ye have robbed me. but ye say, wherein have we robbed thee? in tithes And offerings.
39_MAL_03_09 ye [ are] Cursed with A curse: for ye have robbed me, [ even] this whole nation.
39_MAL_03_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].
39_MAL_03_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.
39_MAL_03_12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be A delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
39_MAL_03_13 your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. yet ye say, what have we spoken [ So much] against thee?
39_MAL_03_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?
39_MAL_03_15 And now we call the proud Happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, [ they that] tempt God are even delivered.
39_MAL_03_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.
39_MAL_03_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.
39_MAL_03_18 Then shall ye Return, And discern between the righteous And the wicked, between him that serveth God And him that serveth him not.