,from www4ebible4org with slight reformatting by ,martin ,ward4 ,book #ci ,malachi #jja3jja ,an oracle3 the word of ,yahweh to ,israel by ,malachi4 #jja3jjb ,i have loved you1 says ,yahweh4 ,yet you say1 ,how have you loved us8 ,wasn't ,esau ,jacob's brother8 says ,yahweh1 ,yet ,i loved ,jacob2 #jja3jjc but ,esau ,i hated1 and made his mountains a desolation1 and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness4 #jja3jjd ,whereas ,edom says1 ,we are beaten down1 but we will return and build the waste places2 thus says ,yahweh of ,armies1 ,they shall build1 but ,i will throw down2 and men will call them ',the ,wicked ,land1' even the people against whom ,yahweh shows wrath forever4 #jja3jje ,your eyes will see1 and you will say1 ,yahweh is great-- even beyond the border of ,israel6 #jja3jjf ,a son honors his father1 and a servant his master4 ,if ,i am a father1 then where is my honor8 ,and if ,i am a master1 where is the respect due me8 ,says ,yahweh of ,armies to you1 priests1 who despise my name4 ,you say1 ',how have we despised your name8' #jja3jjg ,you offer polluted bread on my altar4 ,you say1 ',how have we polluted you8' ,in that you say1 ',yahweh's table contemptible4' #jja3jjh ,when you offer the blind for sacrifice1 isn't that evil8 ,and when you offer the lame and sick1 isn't that evil8 ,present it now to your governor6 ,will he be pleased with you8 ,or will he accept your person8 says ,yahweh of ,armies4 #jja3jji ,now1 please entreat the favor of ,god1 that he may be gracious to us4 ,with this1 will he accept any of you8 says ,yahweh of ,armies4 #jja3jaj ,oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors1 that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain6 ,i have no pleasure in you1 says ,yahweh of ,armies1 neither will ,i accept an offering at your hand4 #jja3jaa ,for from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same1 my name is great among the nations1 and in every place incense will be offered to my name1 and a pure offering3 for my name is great among the nations1 says ,yahweh of ,armies4 #jja3jab ,but you profane it1 in that you say1 ',yahweh's table is polluted1 and its fruit1 even its food1 is contemptible4' #jja3jac ,you say also1 ',behold1 what a weariness it is6' and you have sniffed at it1 says ,yahweh of ,armies2 and you have brought that which was taken by violence1 the lame1 and the sick2 thus you bring the offering4 ,should ,i accept this at your hand8 says ,yahweh4 #jja3jad ,but the deceiver is cursed1 who has in his flock a male1 and vows1 and sacrifices to the ,lord a blemished thing2 for ,i am a great ,king1 says ,yahweh of ,armies1 and my name is awesome among the nations4 #jjb3jja ,now1 you priests1 this commandment is for you4 #jjb3jjb ,if you will not listen1 and if you will not lay it to heart1 to give glory to my name1 says ,yahweh of ,armies1 then will ,i send the curse on you1 and ,i will curse your blessings4 ,indeed1 ,i have cursed them already1 because you do not lay it to heart4 #jjb3jjc ,behold1 ,i will rebuke your seed1 and will spread dung on your faces1 even the dung of your feasts2 and you will be taken away with it4 #jjb3jjd ,you will know that ,i have sent this commandment to you1 that my covenant may be with ,levi1 says ,yahweh of ,armies4 #jjb3jje ,my covenant was with him of life and peace2 and ,i gave them to him who he might be reverent toward me2 and he was reverent toward me1 and stood in awe of my name4 #jjb3jjf ,the law of truth was in his mouth1 and unrighteousness was not found in his lips4 ,he walked with me in peace and uprightness1 and turned many away from iniquity4 #jjb3jjg ,for the priest's lips should keep knowledge1 and they should seek the law at his mouth2 for he is the messenger of ,yahweh of ,armies4 #jjb3jjh ,but you have turned aside out of the way4 ,you have caused many to stumble in the law4 ,you have corrupted the covenant of ,levi1 says ,yahweh of ,armies4 #jjb3jji ,therefore ,i have also made you contemptible and base before all the people1 according to the way you have not kept my ways1 but have had respect for persons in the law4 #jjb3jaj ,don't we all have one father8 ,hasn't one ,god created us8 ,why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother1 profaning the covenant of our fathers8 #jjb3jaa ,judah has dealt treacherously1 and an abomination is committed in ,israel and in ,jerusalem2 for ,judah has profaned the holiness of ,yahweh which he loves1 and has married the daughter of a foreign god4 #jjb3jab ,yahweh will cut off1 to the man who does this1 him who wakes and him who answers1 out of the tents of ,jacob1 and him who offers an offering to ,yahweh of ,armies4 #jjb3jac ,this again you do3 you cover the altar of ,yahweh with tears1 with weeping1 and with sighing1 because he doesn't regard the offering any more1 neither receives it with good will at your hand4 #jjb3jad ,yet you say1 ',why8' ,because ,yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth1 against whom you have dealt treacherously1 though she is your companion1 and the wife of your covenant4 #jjb3jae ,did he not make one1 although he had the residue of the ,spirit8 ,why one8 ,he sought a godly seed4 ,therefore take heed to your spirit1 and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth4 #jjb3jaf ,for ,i hate divorce1 says ,yahweh1 the ,god of ,israel1 and him who covers his garment with violence6 says ,yahweh of ,armies4 ,therefore take heed to your spirit1 that you don't deal treacherously4 #jjb3jag ,you have wearied ,yahweh with your words4 ,yet you say1 ',how have we wearied him8' ,in that you say1 ',everyone who does evil is good in the sight of ,yahweh1 and he delights in them2' or ',where is the ,god of justice8' #jjc3jja ,behold1 ,i send my messenger1 and he will prepare the way before me2 and the ,lord1 whom you seek1 will suddenly come to his temple2 and the messenger of the covenant1 whom you desire1 behold1 he comes6 says ,yahweh of ,armies4 #jjc3jjb ,but who can endure the day of his coming8 ,and who will stand when he appears8 ,for he is like a refiner's fire1 and like launderer's soap2 #jjc3jjc and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver1 and he will purify the sons of ,levi1 and refine them as gold and silver2 and they shall offer to ,yahweh offerings in righteousness4 #jjc3jjd ,then the offering of ,judah and ,jerusalem will be pleasant to ,yahweh1 as in the days of old1 and as in ancient years4 #jjc3jje ,i will come near to you to judgment2 and ,i will be a swift witness against the sorcerers1 and against the adulterers1 and against the perjurers1 and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages1 the widow1 and the fatherless1 and who deprive the foreigner of justice1 and don't fear me1 says ,yahweh of ,armies4 #jjc3jjf ,for ,i1 ,yahweh1 don't change2 therefore you1 sons of ,jacob1 are not consumed4 #jjc3jjg ,from the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances1 and have not kept them4 ,return to me1 and ,i will return to you1 says ,yahweh of ,armies4 ,but you say1 ',how shall we return8' #jjc3jjh ,will a man rob ,god8 ,yet you rob me6 ,but you say1 ',how have we robbed you8' ,in tithes and offerings4 #jjc3jji ,you are cursed with the curse2 for you rob me1 even this whole nation4 #jjc3jaj ,bring the whole tithe into the storehouse1 that there may be food in my house1 and test me now in this1 says ,yahweh of ,armies1 if ,i will not open you the windows of heaven1 and pour you out a blessing1 that there shall not be room enough for4 #jjc3jaa ,i will rebuke the devourer for your sakes1 and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground2 neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field1 says ,yahweh of ,armies4 #jjc3jab ,all nations shall call you blessed1 for you will be a delightful land1 says ,yahweh of ,armies4 #jjc3jac ,your words have been stout against me1 says ,yahweh4 ,yet you say1 ',what have we spoken against you8' #jjc3jad ,you have said1 ',it is vain to serve ,god2' and ',what profit is it that we have kept his charge1 and that we have walked mournfully before ,yahweh of ,armies8 #jjc3jae ,now we call the proud happy2 yes1 those who work wickedness are built up2 yes1 they tempt ,god1 and escape4' #jjc3jaf ,then those who feared ,yahweh spoke one with another2 and ,yahweh listened1 and heard1 and a book of memory was written before him1 for those who feared ,yahweh1 and who honored his name4 #jjc3jag ,they shall be mine1 says ,yahweh of ,armies1 my own possession in the day that ,i make1 and ,i will spare them1 as a man spares his own son who serves him4 #jjc3jah ,then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked1 between him who serves ,god and him who doesn't serve him4 #jjd3jja ,for1 behold1 the day comes1 it burns as a furnace2 and all the proud1 and all who work wickedness1 will be stubble2 and the day that comes will burn them up1 says ,yahweh of ,armies1 that it shall leave them neither root nor branch4 #jjd3jjb ,but to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings4 ,you will go out1 and leap like calves of the stall4 #jjd3jjc ,you shall tread down the wicked2 for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that ,i make1 says ,yahweh of ,armies4 #jjd3jjd ,remember the law of ,moses my servant1 which ,i commanded to him in ,horeb for all ,israel1 even statutes and ordinances4 #jjd3jje ,behold1 ,i will send you ,elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of ,yahweh comes4 #jjd3jjf ,he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children1 and the hearts of the children to their fathers1 lest ,i come and strike the earth with a curse4