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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Malachi 3 ISV</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><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="../">ISV</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 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">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/malachi/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Coming of the Messenger</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Watch out! I’m sending my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly, the LORD you are looking for will come to his Temple. He is the messenger of the covenant whom you desire. Watch out! He is coming!” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But who will survive the day when he comes? Or who can stand when he appears? Because he’s like a refiner’s fire and a launderer’s soap, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>he will sit refining and purifying silver, purifying the descendants of Levi, refining them like gold and silver. Then they’ll bring a righteous offering to the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then the offering to the LORD by Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable as it was in the past, even as in former years.</p> <p class="heading">The Judgment of God</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“I’ll come near to you for judgment. I’ll be a witness, quick to speak against sorcerers, against adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who defraud the laborer of his wage, against those who defraud<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:5 The Heb. lacks against those who defraud">a</a></span> the widow and the orphan, against those who deprive the alien of justice, and against those who don’t fear me,” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Because I the LORD don’t change; therefore you children of Jacob aren’t destroyed.”</p> <p class="heading">God’s Sixth Complaint: Against His People—Gifts and Offerings</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Ever since the time of your ancestors, you have turned away from my decrees and haven’t kept them. Return to me and I’ll return to you,” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. “But you ask, ‘How will we return?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Will a person rob God? Yet you are robbing me! But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “By the tithe and the offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You are cursed under the curse—the entire nation—because you are robbing me!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse that there may be food in my house. So put me to the test in this right now,” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, “and see if I won’t throw open the windows<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:10 Or floodgates">b</a></span> of heaven for you and pour out on you blessing without measure. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I’ll prevent the devourer from harming you,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:11 Lit. I’ll rebuke the devourer from you">c</a></span> so that he does not destroy the crops of your land. Nor will the vines in your fields drop their fruit,” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Then all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight,” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.</p> <p class="heading">God’s Seventh Complaint: Against His People—Slandering God</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“You have spoken arrogant words against me,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What did we say against you?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You said, ‘It is futile to serve God,’ and, ‘What did we get out of it<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:14 Lit. What gain">d</a></span> when we carried out his requirements and went about like mourners in the presence of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and, ‘Now we call the arrogant one blessed. Those who do evil prosper and those who challenge God escape the consequences.’”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:15 The Heb. lacks the consequences">e</a></span> </p> <p class="heading">The Repentance of the Righteous</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then those who feared the LORD talked with each other. The LORD listened and took note,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:16 Lit. heard">f</a></span> and a scroll of remembrance was written in his presence about those who fear the LORD and honor His name. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“They’ll be mine,” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, “in the day when I prepare my treasured possession. I’ll spare them, just as a man spares his own son who serves him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When you return, you will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, and between the one who serves God and the one who does not.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 3:5 The Heb. lacks <i>against those who defraud</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 3:10 Or <i>floodgates</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 3:11 Lit. <i>I’ll rebuke the devourer from you</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 3:14 Lit. <i>What gain</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 3:15 The Heb. lacks <i>the consequences</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 3:16 Lit. <i>heard</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../malachi/2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Malachi 2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Malachi 2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../malachi/4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Malachi 4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Malachi 4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/malachi/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>