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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Malachi 3 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/malachi/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/malachi/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Malachi 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../malachi/2.htm" title="Malachi 2">◄</a> Malachi 3 <a href="../malachi/4.htm" title="Malachi 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/malachi/3-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">I Will Send My Messenger<br /><span class="cross">( <a href ="../matthew/11.htm#7">Matthew 11:7–19</a>; <a href ="../luke/7.htm#24">Luke 7:24–35</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Behold me sending my messenger, and he looked upon the way before my face: and suddenly Jehovah whom ye seek shall come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant whom ye delight in: behold him coming, said Jehovah of armies. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And who enduring the day of his coming? and who standing in his being seen? for he is as the fire of the crucible, as the alkali of the fuller. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the sacrifice of Judah and Jerusalem was pleasant to Jehovah, as the days of old and as the former years.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies.<p> <A name="7"></a><p class="hdg">Robbing God<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For I am Jehovah, I changed not; and ye the sons of Jacob were not finished.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For from the days of your fathers ye departed from my laws, and ye watched not. Turn back to me and I will turn back to you, said Jehovah of armies. And ye said, In what shall we turn back?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Will man defraud God? For ye defraud me. And ye said, In what did we defraud thee? The tenths and the offerings. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Ye are cursed with a curse: and ye defrauded me, the nation all of it. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Bring ye all the tenths to the house of treasure, and food shall be in my house, and try me now in this, said Jehovah of armies, if I will not open to you the lattices of the heavens, and empty out to you a blessing, even is it not a sufficiency. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I rebuked upon the eater for you, and he shall not corrupt for you the fruit of the earth; and the vine in the field shall not be barren to you, says Jehovah of armies. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And all nations pronounced you happy, for ye shall be a land of delight, said Jehovah of armies.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">The Book of Remembrance<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Your words were strong against me, said Jehovah. And ye said, What did we speak against thee? <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Ye said, Vanity to serve God: and what profit that we watched his watches, and that we went mourning from the face of Jehovah of armies? <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And now we pronounce the proud happy; also they working injustice were built up; also they tried Jehovah and they will be delivered.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then they fearing Jehovah spake each to his neighbor, and Jehovah will attend and will hear, and write a book of remembrance before him for those fearing Jehovah, and for thinking upon his name. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And they were to me, said Jehovah of armies, for the day which I make wealth; and I spared for them as a man will spare for the son serving him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And ye turned back and saw between the just to the unjust, and between him serving God and to him serving him not.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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