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

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
burden
of
the
word
of
the
Lord
to
Israel
by
the
hand
of Malachias.
\VS{2}I
have
loved
you, saith
the
Lord:
and
you
have
said: Wherein hast thou
loved
us?
Was
not
Esau
brother
to
Jacob, saith
the
Lord,
and
I
have
loved
Jacob,
\VS{3}But
have
hated
Esau?
and
I
have
made
his
mountains
a
wilderness,
and given
his
inheritance
to
the dragons
of
the
desert.
\VS{4}But
if
Edom
shall
say:
We
are
destroyed,
but
we
will
return
and
build
up
what hath
been
destroyed:
thus saith
the
Lord
of
hosts:
They
shall
build
up,
and
I
will throw
down:
and
they
shall
be
called
the
borders
of
wickedness,
and
the
people
with
whom
the
Lord
is
angry
for
ever.
\VS{5}And
your
eyes
shall
see,
and
you
shall
say:
The
Lord
be
magnified
upon
the
border
of
Israel.
\VS{6}The
son honoureth
the
father,
and
the
servant
his
master:
if
then
I
be
a
father,
where
is
my honour?
and
if
I
be
a
master,
where
is
my
fear? saith
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{7}To
you,
O priests,
that
despise
my
name,
and
have
said: Wherein
have we
despised thy
name?
You offer polluted
bread
upon
my
altar,
and
you
say: Wherein
have we polluted thee?
In
that
you
say:
The
table
of
the
Lord
is contemptible.
\VS{8}If
you
offer
the
blind
for
sacrifice,
is
it
not
evil?
and
if
you
offer
the
lame
and
the
sick,
is
it
not
evil?
offer
it
to thy prince,
if
he
will
be
pleased
with
it,
or
if
he
will
regard thy
face, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{9}And
now
beseech ye
the
face
of
God,
that
he
may
have
mercy
on
you, (for
by
your
hand hath
this
been
done,)
if
by
any
means
he
will
receive
your
faces, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{10}Who
is
there
among
you,
that
will
shut
the
doors,
and
will
kindle
the
fire
on
my
altar gratis?
I
have
no
pleasure
in
you, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts:
and
I
will
not
receive
a
gift
of
your
hand.
\VS{11}For
from
the
rising
of
the
sun
even
to
the going
down,
my
name
is
great
among
the
Gentiles,
and
in
every
place
there
is
sacrifice,
and
there
is
offered
to
my
name
a
clean oblation:
for
my
name
is
great
among
the
Gentiles, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{12}And
you
have
profaned
it
in
that
you
say:
The
table
of
the
Lord
is
defiled:
and
that
which
is laid thereupon
is contemptible
with
the fire
that devoureth
it.
\VS{13}And
you
have
said:
Behold
of
our labour,
and
you puffed
it
away, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts,
and
you
brought
in
of rapine
the
lame,
and
the
sick,
and
brought
in
an
offering:
shall
I
accept
it
at
your
hands, saith
the
Lord?
\VS{14}Cursed
is
the deceitful
man
that hath
in
his
flock
a
male,
and making
a
vow offereth
in
sacrifice
that
which
is feeble
to
the
Lord:
for
I
am
a
great
King, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts,
and
my
name
is dreadful
among
the
Gentiles.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
now, O ye
priests,
this
commandment
is
to
you.
\VS{2}If
you
will
not
hear,
and
if
you
will
not
lay
it
to
heart,
to
give
glory
to
my
name, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts:
I
will
send poverty
upon
you,
and
will
curse
your
blessings,
yea
I
will
curse
them,
because
you
have
not
laid
it
to
heart.
\VS{3}Behold,
I
will cast
the shoulder
to
you,
and
I
will
scatter
upon
your
face
the
dung
of
your solemnities,
and
it
shall
take
you
away
with
it.
\VS{4}And
you
shall
know
that
I
sent
you
this
commandment,
that
my
covenant
might
be
with
Levi, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{5}My
covenant
was
with
him
of
life
and
peace:
and
I
gave
him
fear:
and
he
feared
me,
and
he
was
afraid
before
my
name.
\VS{6}The
law
of
truth
was
in
his
mouth,
and
iniquity
was
not
found
in
his
lips:
he
walked
with
me
in
peace,
and
in equity,
and
turned
many
away
from
iniquity.
\VS{7}For
the
lips
of
the
priest
shall
keep
knowledge,
and
they
shall
seek
the
law
at
his
mouth:
because
he
is
the
angel
of
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{8}But
you
have
departed
out
of
the
way,
and
have caused
many
to
stumble
at
the
law:
you
have made void
the
covenant
of
Levi, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{9}Therefore
have
I
also
made
you contemptible,
and base
before
all
people,
as
you
have
not
kept
my
ways,
and
have accepted persons
in
the
law.
\VS{10}Have
we
not
all
one
father? hath
not
one
God
created us?
why
then doth
every
one
of us despise
his
brother, violating
the
covenant
of
our
fathers?
\VS{11}Juda hath transgressed,
and
abomination hath
been
committed
in
Israel,
and
in
Jerusalem:
for Juda hath
profaned
the
holiness
of
the
Lord,
which
he
loved,
and hath
married
the
daughter
of
a
strange
God.
\VS{12}The
Lord
will
cut
off
the
man
that hath
done
this, both
the master,
and
the scholar,
out
of
the tabernacles
of
Jacob,
and
him
that offereth
an
offering
to
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{13}And
this
again
have
you
done,
you
have
covered
the
altar
of
the
Lord
with
tears,
with
weeping,
and bellowing,
so
that
I
have
no
more
a
regard
to
sacrifice,
neither
do
I
accept
any atonement
at
your
hands.
\VS{14}And
you
have
said:
For
what cause?
Because
the
Lord hath
been witness
between thee,
and
the
wife
of thy
youth,
whom thou hast despised:
yet
she
was thy partner,
and
the
wife
of thy
covenant.
\VS{15}Did
not
one
make
her,
and
she
is
the residue
of
his
spirit?
And
what doth
one
seek,
but
the
seed
of
God?
Keep
then
your
spirit,
and despise
not
the
wife
of thy
youth.
\VS{16}When thou shalt
hate
her
put
her
away, saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel:
but iniquity
shall
cover
his
garment, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts,
keep
your
spirit,
and
despise
not.
\VS{17}You
have
wearied
the
Lord
with
your
words,
and
you
said: Wherein
have
we
wearied
him?
In
that
you
say:
Every
one
that doth
evil,
is
good
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord,
and
such please
him:
or surely
where
is
the
God
of
judgment?

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Behold
I
send
my
angel,
and
he
shall
prepare
the
way
before
my
face.
And presently
the
Lord,
whom
you
seek,
and
the
angel
of
the testament,
whom
you
desire,
shall
come
to
his
temple.
Behold
he cometh, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{2}And
who
shall
be able
to
think
of
the
day
of
his
coming?
and
who
shall
stand
to
see
him?
for
he
is
like
a
refining
fire,
and
like
the
fuller’s herb:
\VS{3}And
he
shall
sit
refining
and
cleansing
the
silver,
and
he
shall
purify
the
sons
of
Levi,
and
shall
refine
them
as
gold,
and
as
silver,
and
they
shall offer
sacrifices
to
the
Lord
in
justice.
\VS{4}And
the
sacrifice
of Juda
and
of
Jerusalem
shall
please
the
Lord,
as
in
the
days
of
old,
and
in
the
ancient
years.
\VS{5}And
I
will
come
to
you
in
judgment,
and
will
be
a speedy
witness
against
sorcerers,
and
adulterers,
and
false swearers,
and
them
that
oppress
the hireling
in
his
wages;
the
widows,
and
the
fatherless:
and
oppress
the
stranger,
and
have
not
feared
me, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{6}For
I
am
the
Lord,
and
I change
not:
and
you
the
sons
of
Jacob
are
not
consumed.
\VS{7}For
from
the
days
of
your
fathers
you
have
departed
from
my ordinances,
and
have
not
kept
them:
Return
to
me,
and
I
will
return
to
you, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts.
And
you
have
said: Wherein
shall
we
return?
\VS{8}Shall
a
man afflict
God?
for
you afflict
me.
And
you
have
said: Wherein
do
we afflict thee?
in
tithes
and
in firstfruits.
\VS{9}And
you
are
cursed
with want,
and
you afflict
me,
even
the
whole
nation
of
you.
\VS{10}Bring
all
the
tithes
into
the
storehouse,
that
there
may
be meat
in
my
house,
and
try
me
in
this, saith
the
Lord:
if
I
open
not unto
you
the flood-gates
of
heaven,
and pour
you
out
a
blessing
even
to abundance.
\VS{11}And
I
will
rebuke
for
your sakes
the
devourer,
and
he
shall
not spoil
the
fruit
of
your
land:
neither
shall
the
vine
in
the
field
be barren, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{12}And
all
nations
shall
call
you
blessed:
for
you
shall
be
a
delightful
land, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts.
\VS{13}Your
words
have
been unsufferable
to
me, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{14}And
you
have
said:
What
have
we
spoken
against thee?
You
have
said:
He laboureth
in
vain
that serveth
God,
and
what
profit
is
it
that
we
have
kept
his ordinances,
and
that
we
have
walked sorrowful
before
the
Lord
of
hosts?
\VS{15}Wherefore
now
we
call
the
proud people
happy,
for
they
that work
wickedness
are
built
up,
and
they
have tempted
God
and
are preserved.
\VS{16}Then
they
that
feared
the
Lord
spoke
every
one
with
his neighbour:
and
the
Lord
gave ear,
and
heard
it:
and
a
book
of
remembrance
was
written
before
him
for
them
that
fear
the
Lord,
and
think
on
his
name.
\VS{17}And
they
shall
be
my special
possession, saith
the
Lord
of
hosts,
in
the
day
that
I
do
judgment:
and
I
will
spare
them,
as
a
man spareth
his
son
that serveth
him.
\VS{18}And
you
shall
return,
and
shall
see
the difference
between
the
just
and
the
wicked:
and
between
him
that serveth
God,
and
him
that serveth
him
not.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not leave them root, nor branch.
\VS{2}But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall arise, and health in his wings: and you shall go forth, and shall leap like calves of the herd.
\VS{3}And you shall tread down the wicked when they shall be ashes under the sole of your feet in the day that I do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
\VS{4}Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, the precepts, and judgments.
\VS{5}Behold I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
\VS{6}And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers: lest I come, and strike the earth with anathema.
\par }