1:1 The burden honour? and if I of the word of [be] a master, the LORD to where [is] my Israel by fear? saith the Malachi. LORD of hosts 1:2 I have loved unto you, O you, saith the priests, that LORD. Yet ye say, despise my name. Wherein hast thou And ye say, loved us? [Was] Wherein have we not Esau Jacob's despised thy brother? saith name? the LORD: yet I 1:7 Ye offer loved Jacob, polluted bread 1:3 And I hated upon mine altar; Esau, and laid and ye say, his mountains and Wherein have we his heritage polluted thee? In waste for the that ye say, The dragons of the table of the LORD wilderness. [is] 1:4 Whereas Edom contemptible. saith, We are 1:8 And if ye impoverished, but offer the blind we will return for sacrifice, and build the [is it] not evil? desolate places; and if ye offer thus saith the the lame and LORD of hosts, sick, [is it] not They shall build, evil? offer it but I will throw now unto thy down; and they governor; will he shall call them, be pleased with The border of thee, or accept wickedness, and, thy person? saith The people the LORD of against whom the hosts. LORD hath 1:9 And now, I indignation for pray you, beseech ever. God that he will 1:5 And your be gracious unto eyes shall see, us: this hath and ye shall say, been by your The LORD will be means: will he magnified from regard your the border of persons? saith Israel. the LORD of 1:6 A son hosts. honoureth [his] 1:10 Who [is father, and a there] even among servant his you that would master: if then I shut the doors [be] a father, [for nought]? where [is] mine neither do ye kindle [fire] on 1:14 But cursed mine altar for [be] the nought. I have no deceiver, which pleasure in you, hath in his flock saith the LORD of a male, and hosts, neither voweth, and will I accept an sacrificeth unto offering at your the Lord a hand. corrupt thing: 1:11 For from for I [am] a the rising of the great King, saith sun even unto the the LORD of going down of the hosts, and my same my name name [is] [shall be] great dreadful among among the the heathen. Gentiles; and in 2:1 And now, O every place ye priests, this incense [shall commandment [is] be] offered unto for you. my name, and a 2:2 If ye will pure offering: not hear, and if for my name ye will not lay [shall be] great [it] to heart, to among the give glory unto heathen, saith my name, saith the LORD of the LORD of hosts. hosts, I will 1:12 But ye have even send a curse profaned it, in upon you, and I that ye say, The will curse your table of the LORD blessings: yea, I [is] polluted; have cursed them and the fruit already, because thereof, [even] ye do not lay his meat, [is] [it] to heart. contemptible. 2:3 Behold, I 1:13 Ye said will corrupt your also, Behold, seed, and spread what a weariness dung upon your [is it]! and ye faces, [even] the have snuffed at dung of your it, saith the solemn feasts; LORD of hosts; and [one] shall and ye brought take you away [that which was] with it. torn, and the 2:4 And ye shall lame, and the know that I have sick; thus ye sent this brought an commandment unto offering: should you, that my I accept this of covenant might be your hand? saith with Levi, saith the LORD. the LORD of hosts. created us? why 2:5 My covenant do we deal was with him of treacherously life and peace; every man against and I gave them his brother, by to him [for] the profaning the fear wherewith he covenant of our feared me, and fathers? was afraid before 2:11 Judah hath my name. dealt 2:6 The law of treacherously, truth was in his and an mouth, and abomination is iniquity was not committed in found in his Israel and in lips: he walked Jerusalem; for with me in peace Judah hath and equity, and profaned the did turn many holiness of the away from LORD which he iniquity. loved, and hath 2:7 For the married the priest's lips daughter of a should keep strange god. knowledge, and 2:12 The LORD they should seek will cut off the the law at his man that doeth mouth: for he this, the master [is] the and the scholar, messenger of the out of the LORD of hosts. tabernacles of 2:8 But ye are Jacob, and him departed out of that offereth an the way; ye have offering unto the caused many to LORD of hosts. stumble at the 2:13 And this law; ye have have ye done corrupted the again, covering covenant of Levi, the altar of the saith the LORD of LORD with tears, hosts. with weeping, and 2:9 Therefore with crying out, have I also made insomuch that he you contemptible regardeth not the and base before offering any all the people, more, or according as ye receiveth [it] have not kept my with good will at ways, but have your hand. been partial in 2:14 Yet ye say, the law. Wherefore? 2:10 Have we not Because the LORD all one father? hath been witness hath not one God between thee and the wife of thy will send my youth, against messenger, and he whom thou hast shall prepare the dealt way before me: treacherously: and the Lord, yet [is] she thy whom ye seek, companion, and shall suddenly the wife of thy come to his covenant. temple, even the 2:15 And did not messenger of the he make one? Yet covenant, whom ye had he the delight in: residue of the behold, he shall spirit. And come, saith the wherefore one? LORD of hosts. That he might 3:2 But who may seek a godly abide the day of seed. Therefore his coming? and take heed to your who shall stand spirit, and let when he none deal appeareth? for he treacherously [is] like a against the wife refiner's fire, of his youth. and like fullers' 2:16 For the soap: LORD, the God of 3:3 And he shall Israel, saith sit [as] a that he hateth refiner and putting away: for purifier of [one] covereth silver: and he violence with his shall purify the garment, saith sons of Levi, and the LORD of purge them as hosts: therefore gold and silver, take heed to your that they may spirit, that ye offer unto the deal not LORD an offering treacherously. in righteousness. 2:17 Ye have wearied the LORD 3:4 Then shall with your words. the offering of Yet ye say, Judah and Wherein have we Jerusalem be wearied [him]? pleasant unto the When ye say, LORD, as in the Every one that days of old, and doeth evil [is] as in former good in the sight years. of the LORD, and 3:5 And I will he delighteth in come near to you them; or, Where to judgment; and [is] the God of I will be a swift judgment? witness against 3:1 Behold, I the sorcerers, and against the there may be meat adulterers, and in mine house, against false and prove me now swearers, and herewith, saith against those the LORD of that oppress the hosts, if I will hireling in [his] not open you the wages, the widow, windows of and the heaven, and pour fatherless, and you out a that turn aside blessing, that the stranger [there shall] not [from his right], [be room] enough and fear not me, [to receive it]. saith the LORD of 3:11 And I will hosts. rebuke the 3:6 For I [am] devourer for your the LORD, I sakes, and he change not; shall not destroy therefore ye sons the fruits of of Jacob are not your ground; consumed. neither shall 3:7 Even from your vine cast the days of your her fruit before fathers ye are the time in the gone away from field, saith the mine ordinances, LORD of hosts. and have not kept 3:12 And all [them]. Return nations shall unto me, and I call you blessed: will return unto for ye shall be a you, saith the delightsome land, LORD of hosts. saith the LORD of But ye said, hosts. Wherein shall we 3:13 Your words return? have been stout 3:8 Will a man against me, saith rob God? Yet ye the LORD. Yet ye have robbed me. say, What have we But ye say, spoken [so much] Wherein have we against thee? robbed thee? In 3:14 Ye have tithes and said, It [is] offerings. vain to serve 3:9 Ye [are] God: and what cursed with a profit [is it] curse: for ye that we have kept have robbed me, his ordinance, [even] this whole and that we have nation. walked mournfully 3:10 Bring ye before the LORD all the tithes of hosts? into the 3:15 And now we storehouse, that call the proud happy; yea, they shall leave them that work neither root nor wickedness are branch. set up; yea, 4:2 But unto you [they that] tempt that fear my name God are even shall the Sun of delivered. righteousness 3:16 Then they arise with that feared the healing in his LORD spake often wings; and ye one to another: shall go forth, and the LORD and grow up as hearkened, and calves of the heard [it], and a stall. book of 4:3 And ye shall remembrance was tread down the written before wicked; for they him for them that shall be ashes feared the LORD, under the soles and that thought of your feet in upon his name. the day that I 3:17 And they shall do [this], shall be mine, saith the LORD of saith the LORD of hosts. hosts, in that 4:4 Remember ye day when I make the law of Moses up my jewels; and my servant, which I will spare I commanded unto them, as a man him in Horeb for spareth his own all Israel, son that serveth [with] the him. statutes and 3:18 Then shall judgments. ye return, and 4:5 Behold, I discern between will send you the righteous and Elijah the the wicked, prophet before between him that the coming of the serveth God and great and him that serveth dreadful day of him not. the LORD: 4:1 For, behold, 4:6 And he shall the day cometh, turn the heart of that shall burn the fathers to as an oven; and the children, and all the proud, the heart of the yea, and all that children to their do wickedly, fathers, lest I shall be stubble: come and smite and the day that the earth with a cometh shall burn curse. them up, saith ^Z^Z the LORD of hosts, that it ~~~~~~