\NormalFont\ShortTitle{Malachi}
{\MTB The Book of
\par }{\MT Malachi

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
of
the
Lord
to
Israel
by
Malachi.
\VS{2}You
have
been
loved
by
me,
says
the
Lord.
But
you
say,
Where
was
your
love
for
us?
Was
not
Esau Jacob's
brother?
says
the
Lord:
but
Jacob
was
loved
by
me,
\VS{3}And
Esau
was
hated,
and
I sent destruction
on
his
mountains,
and
gave
his
heritage
to
the beasts
of
the
waste
land.
\VS{4}Though
Edom
says,
We
are crushed
down
but
we
will
come
back,
building
up
the
waste
places;
this
is
what
the
Lord
of
armies
has
said:
They
may
put
up buildings,
but
I
will
have
them pulled
down;
and
they
will
be
named
The
land
of evil-doing,
and
The
people against
whom
the
Lord
keeps
his wrath
for
ever.
\VS{5}And
your
eyes
will
see
it;
and
you
will
say,
The
Lord
is
great
even
outside
the limits
of
Israel.
\VS{6}A
son gives honour
to
his
father,
and
a
servant
has
fear
of
his
master:
if
then
I
am
a
father,
where
is
my honour?
and
if
I
am
a
master,
where
is
the
fear
of
me?
says
the
Lord
of
armies
to
you,
O
priests,
who give
no value
to
my
name.
And
you
say,
How
have
we
not
given value
to
your
name?
\VS{7}You
put
unclean
bread
on
my
altar.
And
you
say,
How
have we made
it
unclean?
By
your
saying,
The
table
of
the
Lord
is
of no value.
\VS{8}And
when
you
give
what
is
blind
for
an
offering,
it
is
no
evil!
and
when
you
give
what
is damaged
and ill,
it
is
no
evil!
Give
it
now
to
your ruler;
will
he
be
pleased
with
you,
or
will
you
have
his
approval?
says
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{9}And
now,
make
request
for
the grace
of
God
so
that
he
may
have
mercy
on
us:
this
has
been
your
doing:
will
he
give
his
approval
to
any
of
you?
says
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{10}If
only
there
was
one
among
you
who
would see
that
the
doors
were
shut,
so
that
you
might
not
put
a
light
to
the
fire
on
my
altar
for
nothing!
I
have
no
pleasure
in
you,
says
the
Lord
of
armies,
and
I
will
not
take
an
offering
from
your
hands.
\VS{11}For,
from
the
coming
up
of
the
sun
till
its going
down,
my
name
is
great
among
the
Gentiles;
and
in
every
place
the smell
of
burning flesh
is
offered
to
my
name,
and
a
clean
offering:
for
my
name
is
great
among
the
Gentiles,
says
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{12}But
you make
it unholy
by
saying,
The Lord's
table
has become
unclean,
and
his
food
is
of no value.
\VS{13}And
you
say,
See, what
a weariness
it
is!
and
you let
out
your breath
at
it,
says
the
Lord
of
armies;
and
you
have
given what
has
been cut
about
by beasts,
and what
is damaged
in
its feet
and ill;
this
is
the
offering
you
give:
will
this
be
pleasing
to
me
from
your
hands?
says
the
Lord.
\VS{14}A
curse
on
the false
man
who
has
a
male
in
his
flock,
and
takes
his oath,
and gives
to
the
Lord
a damaged
thing:
for
I
am
a
great
King,
says
the
Lord
of
armies,
and
my
name
is
to
be
feared
among
the
Gentiles.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
now, O
you
priests,
this order
is
for
you.
\VS{2}If
you
will
not
give ear
and
take
it
to
heart,
to
give
glory
to
my
name,
says
the
Lord
of
armies,
then
I
will
send
the
curse
on
you
and
will
put
a
curse
on
your
blessing:
truly,
even
now
I
have
put
a
curse
on
it,
because
you
do
not
take
it
to
heart.
\VS{3}See,
I
will
have
your arm cut
off,
and
will
put waste
on
your
faces,
even
the waste
from
your
feasts;
and
you
will
be
taken
away
with
it.
\VS{4}And
you
will
be
certain
that
I
have
sent
this
order
to
you,
so
that
it
might
be
my
agreement
with
Levi,
says
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{5}My
agreement
with
him
was
on
my
side
life
and
peace,
and
I
gave
them
to
him;
on
his
side
fear,
and
he
had
fear
of
me
and
gave honour
to
my
name.
\VS{6}True
teaching
was
in
his
mouth,
and
no
evil
was seen
on
his
lips:
he
was
walking
with
me
in
peace
and righteousness,
turning numbers
of
people
away
from evil-doing.
\VS{7}For
it
is right
for
the priest's
lips
to
keep
knowledge,
and
for
men
to
be
waiting
for
the
law
from
his
mouth:
for
he
is
the servant sent
from
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{8}But
you
are
turned
out
of
the
way;
you
have made
the
law hard
for numbers
of people;
you
have made
the
agreement
of
Levi
of
no value,
says
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{9}And
so
I
have
taken
away
your honour
and
made
you
low
before
all
the
people,
even
as
you
have
not
kept
my
ways,
and
have
given
no thought
to
me
in using
the
law.
\VS{10}Have
we
not
all
one
father?
has
not
one
God
made us?
why
are
we,
every
one
of us, acting falsely
to
his
brother, putting shame
on
the
agreement
of
our
fathers?
\VS{11}Judah
has
been acting falsely,
and
a
disgusting
thing
has
been
done
in
Jerusalem;
for
Judah
has
made unclean
the
holy
place
of
the
Lord
which
is dear
to
him,
and
has taken
as
his
wife
the
daughter
of
a
strange
god.
\VS{12}The
Lord
will
have
the
man
who
does
this
cut
off root
and branch
out
of
the
tents
of
Jacob,
and
him
who
makes
an
offering
to
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{13}And
this
again
you
do:
covering
the
altar
of
the
Lord
with
weeping
and
with grief,
so
that
he gives
no
more thought
to
the
offering,
and
does
not
take
it
with
pleasure
from
your
hand.
\VS{14}But
you
say,
For
what
reason?
Because
the
Lord
has
been
a witness
between
you
and
the
wife
of
your early years,
to
whom
you
have
been untrue,
though
she
is
your friend
and
the
wife
to
whom
you
have given
your
word.
\VS{15}...
So
give thought
to
your
spirit,
and
let
no
one
be false
to
the
wife
of
his early years.
\VS{16}For
I
am
against
the
putting
away
of
a wife,
says
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
and
against
him
who
is
clothed
with
violent acts,
says
the
Lord
of
armies:
so
give
thought
to
your
spirit
and
do
not
be false
in
your acts.
\VS{17}You
have
made
the
Lord
tired
with
your
words.
And
still
you
say,
How
have
we
made
him
tired?
By
your
saying,
Everyone
who
does
evil
is
good
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
and
he
has
delight
in
them;
or,
Where
is
God
the
judge?

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}See,
I
am
sending
my servant,
and
he
will make ready
the
way
before
me;
and
the
Lord,
whom
you
are
looking
for,
will
suddenly
come
to
his
Temple;
and
the
angel
of
the
agreement,
in
whom
you
have
delight,
see,
he
is
coming,
says
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{2}But
by
whom
may
the
day
of
his
coming
be faced?
and
who
may
keep
his
place
when
he
is
seen?
for
he
is
like
the metal-tester's
fire
and
the cleaner's
soap.
\VS{3}He
will
take
his
seat, testing
and cleaning
the
sons
of
Levi, burning away
the evil
from
them
as
from
gold
and
silver;
so
that
they
may
make
offerings
to
the
Lord
in
righteousness.
\VS{4}Then
the
offering
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem
will
be
pleasing
to
the
Lord,
as
in
days gone
by,
and
as
in
past
years.
\VS{5}And
I
will
come
near
to
you
for judging;
I
will
quickly
be
a
witness
against
the wonder-workers,
against
those
who
have
been untrue
in
married
life,
against
those
who
take
false
oaths;
against
those
who
keep
back
from
the
servant
his payment,
and
who
are hard
on
the
widow
and
the child
without
a father,
who
do
not
give
his
rights
to
the
man
from
a strange country,
and
have
no
fear
of
me,
says
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{6}For
I
am
the
Lord,
I
am unchanged;
and
so
you,
O
sons
of
Jacob,
have
not
been cut off.
\VS{7}From
the
days
of
your
fathers
you
have
been
turned
away
from
my
rules
and
have
not
kept
them.
Come
back
to
me,
and
I
will
come
back
to
you,
says
the
Lord
of
armies.
But
you
say,
How
are
we
to
come
back?
\VS{8}Will
a
man keep back
from
God
what
is right?
But
you
have kept back
what
is mine.
But
you
say,
What
have
we kept back
from
you? Tenths
and
offerings.
\VS{9}You
are
cursed
with
a
curse;
for
you
have kept back
from
me what
is mine,
even
all
this
nation.
\VS{10}Let
your tenths
come
into
the store-house
so
that
there
may
be
food
in
my
house,
and
put
me
to
the
test
by doing
so,
says
the
Lord
of
armies,
and
see
if
I
do
not make
the
windows
of
heaven
open
and send down
such
a
blessing
on
you
that
there
is
no
room
for
it.
\VS{11}And
on
your account
I
will keep back
the locusts
from wasting
the
fruits
of
your
land;
and
the
fruit
of
your
vine
will
not
be dropped
on
the
field
before
its time,
says
the
Lord
of
armies
\VS{12}And
you
will
be named
happy
by
all
nations:
for
you
will
be
a
land
of
delight,
says
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{13}Your
words
have
been
strong
against
me,
says
the
Lord.
And
still
you
say,
What
have
we
said
against
you?
\VS{14}You
have
said,
It
is no
use worshipping
God:
what
profit
have
we
had
from
keeping
his
orders,
and
going
in clothing
of sorrow
before
the
Lord
of
armies?
\VS{15}And
now
to
us
the
men
of pride seem
happy;
yes,
the evil-doers
are
doing
well;
they put
God
to
the
test
and
are safe.
\VS{16}Then
those
in whom
was
the
fear
of
the
Lord
had
talk
together:
and
the
Lord
gave ear,
and
it
was
recorded
in
a
book
to
be kept
in
mind
before
him,
for
those
who
had
the
fear
of
the
Lord
and
gave
thought
to
his
name.
\VS{17}And
they
will
be mine,
says
the
Lord,
in
the
day
when
I
make
them
my special
property;
and
I
will
have
mercy
on
them
as
a
man
has
mercy
on
his
son
who
is
his
servant.
\VS{18}Then
you
will
again
see
how
the upright
man
is different
from
the sinner,
and
the
servant
of
God
from
him
who
is
not.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.
\VS{2}But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.
\VS{3}And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.
\VS{4}Keep in mind the law of Moses, my servant, which I gave him in Horeb for all Israel, even the rules and the decisions.
\VS{5}See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared.
\VS{6}And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.
\par }