  Title: The Bible, King James version, Book 39: Malachi Edition: 10 Language: English This eBook was produced by David Widger with the help of Derek Andrew's text from January 1992 and the work of Bryan Taylor in November 2002. Book 39 Malachi39:001:001 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. 39:001:002 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, 39:001:003 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. 39:001:004 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever. 39:001:005 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel. 39:001:006 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? 39:001:007 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible. 39:001:008 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts. 39:001:009 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts. 39:001:010 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. 39:001:011 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts. 39:001:012 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible. 39:001:013 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have 39:001:014 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, 39:002:001 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. 39:002:002 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. 39:002:003 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it. 39:002:004 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. 39:002:005 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to 39:002:006 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found 39:002:007 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should 39:002:008 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to 39:002:009 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before 39:002:010 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why 39:002:011 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. 39:002:012 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts. 39:002:013 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD 39:002:014 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness 39:002:015 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. 39:002:016 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting 39:002:017 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein 39:003:001 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way 39:003:002 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: 39:003:003 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. 39:003:004 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. 39:003:005 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. 39:003:006 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. 39:003:007 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? 39:003:008 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein 39:003:009 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this 39:003:010 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 39:003:011 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. 39:003:012 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a 39:003:013 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye 39:003:014 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it 39:003:015 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work 39:003:016 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. 39:003:017 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day 39:003:018 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and 39:004:001 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 39:004:002 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness 39:004:003 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes 39:004:004 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded 39:004:005 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 39:004:006 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 smite the earth with a curse. ********** This eBook was produced by David Widger See above the credits to previous producers of this text. 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