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The Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple. Behold, the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, is coming!” says Yahweh of Armies. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap; <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh as in the days of old and as in ancient years. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies. </p> <p class="hdg">Robbing God</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be enough room for. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says Yahweh of Armies. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says Yahweh of Armies. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Your words have been harsh against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies? <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’ </p> <p class="hdg">The Book of Remembrance</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared Yahweh and who honored his name. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make. I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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