'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does
evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;'
or 'Where is the God of justice?'
003:001 "Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me;
and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple;
and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold,
he comes!" says Yahweh of Armies.
003:002 "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 launderer's soap;
003:003 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 Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
003:004 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant
to Yahweh, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.
003:005 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift
witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers,
and 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 Yahweh of Armies.
003:006 "For I, Yahweh, don't change; therefore you, sons of Jacob,
are not consumed.
003:007 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from
my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me,
and I will return to you," says Yahweh of Armies.
"But you say, 'How shall we return?'
003:008 Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we
robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.
003:009 You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me,
even this whole nation.
003:010 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food
in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of Armies,
"if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you
out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.
003:011 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 Yahweh of Armies.
003:012 "All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a
delightful land," says Yahweh of Armies.
003:013 "Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh.
"Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'
003:014 You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit
is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked
mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
003:015 Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness
are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'
003:016 Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another;
and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory
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