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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/malachi/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or and they will belong to the LORD, bringers of an offering in righteousness">a</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> as in the days of old and as in former years.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts.</p> <p class="heading">Robbing God</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“For I the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will rebuke the devourer<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Probably a name for some crop-destroying pest or pests">b</a></sup></span> for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Your words have been hard against me, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. But you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.’”</p> <p class="heading">The Book of Remembrance</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then those who feared the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke with one another. The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and esteemed his name. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“They shall be mine, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>and they will belong to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, bringers of an offering in righteousness</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Probably a name for some crop-destroying pest or pests<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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