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

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}A revelation,
the
LORD’s\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:1 }
When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name.}
word
to
Israel
by
Malachi.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}“I
have
loved
you,”
says
the
LORD.
\par }{\PP Yet
you
say, “How
have
you
loved
us?”
\par }{\PP “Wasn’t
Esau
Jacob’s
brother?”
says
the
LORD, “Yet
I
loved
Jacob;
\VS{3}but
Esau
I
hated,
and
made
his
mountains
a
desolation,
and
gave
his
heritage
to
the jackals
of
the
wilderness.”
\VS{4}Whereas
Edom
says, “We
are
beaten
down,
but
we
will
return
and
build
the
waste
places,”
the
LORD
of
Armies
says, “They
shall
build,
but
I
will throw
down;
and
men
will
call
them ‘The Wicked
Land,’
even
the
people against
whom
the
LORD shows wrath
forever.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Your
eyes
will
see,
and
you
will
say, “The
LORD
is
great—even
beyond
the
border
of
Israel!”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“A
son honours
his
father,
and
a
servant
his
master.
If
I
am
a
father,
then
where
is
my honour?
And
if
I
am
a
master,
where
is
the
respect due
me?”
says
the
LORD
of
Armies
to
you
priests
who
despise
my
name. “You
say, ‘How
have
we
despised
your
name?’
\VS{7}You offer polluted
bread
on
my
altar.
You
say, ‘How
have we polluted
you?’
In
that
you
say, ‘The
LORD’s
table
is contemptible.’
\VS{8}When
you
offer
the
blind
for
sacrifice, isn’t
that
evil?
And
when
you
offer
the
lame
and
sick, isn’t
that
evil?
Present
it
now
to
your
governor!
Will
he
be
pleased
with
you?
Or
will
he
accept
your
person?”
says
the
LORD
of
Armies.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“Now,
please
entreat
the favour
of
God,\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:9 }
The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).}
that
he
may
be gracious
to
us.
With
this,
will
he accept
any
of
you?”
says
the
LORD
of
Armies.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“Oh
that
there
were
one amongst
you
who
would
shut
the
doors,
that
you
might
not
kindle
fire
on
my
altar
in
vain!
I
have
no
pleasure
in
you,”
says
the
LORD
of
Armies, “neither
will
I
accept
an
offering
at
your
hand.
\VS{11}For
from
the
rising
of
the
sun
even
to
its going
down,
my
name
is
great amongst
the
nations,
and
in
every
place
incense
will
be
offered
to
my
name,
and
a
pure
offering;
for
my
name
is
great amongst
the
nations,”
says
the
LORD
of
Armies.
\VS{12}“But
you
profane
it
when
you
say, ‘The LORD’s
table
is polluted,
and
its fruit,
even
its
food,
is contemptible.’
\VS{13}You
say
also, ‘Behold,\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 1:13 }
“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.} what
a weariness
it
is!’
And
you
have sniffed
at
it”,
says
the
LORD
of
Armies; “and
you
have
brought
that
which
was
taken
by violence,
the
lame,
and
the
sick; thus
you
bring
the
offering.
Should
I
accept
this
at
your
hand?”
says
the
LORD.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“But
the deceiver
is
cursed
who
has
in
his
flock
a
male,
and
vows
and
sacrifices
to
the
Lord\FTNT{§}{{\FR 1:14 }
The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”}
a defective
thing;
for
I
am
a
great
King,”
says
the
LORD
of
Armies, “and
my
name
is
awesome amongst
the
nations.”

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Now,
you
priests,
this
commandment
is
for
you.
\VS{2}If
you
will
not
listen,
and
if
you
will
not
take
it
to
heart,
to
give
glory
to
my
name,”
says
the
LORD
of
Armies, “then
I
will
send
the
curse
on
you,
and
I
will
curse
your
blessings.
Indeed,
I
have
cursed
them already,
because
you
do
not
take
it
to
heart.
\VS{3}Behold,
I
will
rebuke
your
offspring,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 2:3 }
or, seed}
and
will
spread
dung
on
your
faces,
even
the
dung
of
your
feasts;
and
you
will
be
taken
away
with
it.
\VS{4}You
will
know
that
I
have
sent
this
commandment
to
you,
that
my
covenant
may
be
with
Levi,”
says
the
LORD
of
Armies.
\VS{5}“My
covenant
was
with
him
of
life
and
peace;
and
I
gave
them
to
him
that
he
might
be reverent towards
me;
and
he
was reverent towards
me,
and
stood
in
awe
of
my
name.
\VS{6}The
law
of
truth
was
in
his
mouth,
and
unrighteousness
was
not
found
in
his
lips.
He
walked
with
me
in
peace
and
uprightness,
and
turned
many
away
from
iniquity.
\VS{7}For
the
priest’s
lips
should
keep
knowledge,
and
they
should
seek
the
law
at
his
mouth;
for
he
is
the
messenger
of
the
LORD
of
Armies.
\VS{8}But
you
have
turned
away
from
the
path.
You
have caused
many
to
stumble
in
the
law.
You
have
corrupted
the
covenant
of
Levi,”
says
the
LORD
of
Armies.
\VS{9}“Therefore
I
have
also
made
you contemptible
and wicked
before
all
the
people,
according
to
the
way
you
have
not
kept
my
ways,
but
have
had
respect
for persons
in
the
law.
\VS{10}Don’t
we
all
have
one
father?
Hasn’t
one
God
created us?
Why
do
we
deal
treacherously
every
man
against
his
brother,
profaning
the
covenant
of
our
fathers?
\VS{11}Judah
has
dealt
treacherously,
and
an
abomination
is
committed
in
Israel
and
in
Jerusalem;
for
Judah
has
profaned
the
holiness
of
the
LORD
which
he
loves,
and
has
married
the
daughter
of
a
foreign
god.
\VS{12}The
LORD
will
cut
off
the
man
who
does
this,
him
who wakes
and
him
who
answers,
out
of
the
tents
of
Jacob
and
him
who offers
an
offering
to
the
LORD
of
Armies.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“This
again
you
do:
you
cover
the
LORD’s
altar
with
tears,
with
weeping,
and
with sighing,
because
he doesn’t
regard
the
offering
any
more,
neither
receives
it
with
good
will
at
your
hand.
\VS{14}Yet
you
say, ‘Why?’
Because
the
LORD
has
been witness
between
you
and
the
wife
of
your
youth,
against
whom
you
have
dealt
treacherously,
though
she
is
your
companion
and
the
wife
of
your
covenant.
\VS{15}Did
he
not
make
you
one,
although
he
had
the residue
of
the
Spirit?
Why
one?
He
sought
godly
offspring. Therefore
take
heed
to
your
spirit,
and
let
no
one
deal
treacherously
against
the
wife
of
his
youth.
\VS{16}One
who
hates
and
divorces”,
says
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel, “covers
his
garment
with
violence!”
says
the
LORD
of
Armies. “Therefore
pay
attention
to
your
spirit,
that
you
don’t
be unfaithful.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}You
have
wearied
the
LORD
with
your
words.
Yet
you
say, ‘How
have
we
wearied
him?’
In
that
you
say, ‘Everyone
who
does
evil
is
good
in
the
LORD’s
sight,
and
he
delights
in
them;’
or ‘Where
is
the
God
of
justice?’

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Behold,
I
send
my
messenger,
and
he
will
prepare
the
way
before
me!
The
Lord,
whom
you
seek,
will
suddenly
come
to
his
temple.
Behold,
the
messenger
of
the
covenant,
whom
you
desire,
is
coming!”
says
the
LORD
of
Armies.
\VS{2}“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;
\VS{3}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
the
LORD
offerings
in
righteousness.
\VS{4}Then
the
offering
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem
will
be
pleasant
to
the
LORD
as
in
the
days
of
old
and
as
in
ancient
years.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}I
will
come
near
to
you
to judgement.
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
the
LORD
of
Armies.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“For
I,
the
LORD,
don’t change;
therefore
you,
sons
of
Jacob,
are
not
consumed.
\VS{7}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
the
LORD
of
Armies. “But
you
say, ‘How
shall
we
return?’
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Will
a
man
rob
God?
Yet
you
rob
me!
But
you
say, ‘How
have
we
robbed
you?’
In
tithes
and
offerings.
\VS{9}You
are
cursed
with
the
curse;
for
you
rob
me,
even
this
whole
nation.
\VS{10}Bring
the
whole
tithe
into
the
storehouse,
that
there
may
be
food
in
my
house,
and
test
me
now
in
this,”
says
the
LORD
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.
\VS{11}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
the
LORD
of
Armies.
\VS{12}“All
nations
shall
call
you
blessed,
for
you
will
be
a
delightful
land,”
says
the
LORD
of
Armies.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“Your
words
have
been harsh
against
me,”
says
the
LORD. “Yet
you
say, ‘What
have
we
spoken
against
you?’
\VS{14}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
the
LORD
of
Armies?
\VS{15}Now
we
call
the
proud
happy;
yes, those
who work
wickedness
are
built
up;
yes,
they tempt
God,
and
escape.’
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Then
those
who
feared
the
LORD
spoke
one
with
another;
and
the
LORD
listened
and
heard,
and
a
book
of
memory
was
written
before
him
for
those
who
feared
the
LORD
and
who honoured
his
name.
\VS{17}They
shall
be mine,”
says
the
LORD
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.
\VS{18}Then
you
shall
return
and
discern
between
the
righteous
and
the
wicked,
between
him
who
serves
God
and
him
who
doesn’t
serve
him.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“For behold, the day comes, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble. The day that comes will burn them up,” says the LORD of Armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
\VS{2}But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.
\VS{3}You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says the LORD of Armies.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.
\VS{6}He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
\par }