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Date: 26 Apr 2005 02:07:04 AM
Object: Malachi 1, World English Bible
Malachi, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.
{1:2} "I have loved you," says Yahweh.
Yet you say, "How have you loved us?"
"Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says Yahweh, "Yet I loved Jacob;
{1:3} but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave
his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness." {1:4} Whereas Edom
says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste
places;" thus says Yahweh of Armies, "They shall build, but I will
throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people
against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever."
{1:5} Your eyes will see, and you will say, "Yahweh is great--even
beyond the border of Israel!"
{1:6} "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a
father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the
respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my
name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?' {1:7} You offer
polluted bread on my altar. You say, 'How have we polluted you?' In
that you say, 'Yahweh's table contemptible.' {1:8} 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 Yahweh of
Armies.
{1:9} "Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious
to us. With this, will he accept any of you?" says Yahweh of Armies.
{1:10} "Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors,
that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure
in you," says Yahweh of Armies, "neither will I accept an offering at
your hand. {1:11} For from the rising of the sun even to the going
down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every
place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my
name is great among the nations," says Yahweh of Armies. {1:12} "But
you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its
fruit, even its food, is contemptible.' {1:13} You say also, 'Behold,
what a weariness it is!' and you have sniffed at it," says Yahweh 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 Yahweh.
{1:14} "But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and
vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great
King," says Yahweh of Armies, "and my name is awesome among the
nations."
{2:1} "Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. {2:2} If you
will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to
my name," says Yahweh of Armies, "then will I send the curse on you,
and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already,
because you do not lay it to heart. {2:3} Behold, I will rebuke your
seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your
feasts; and you will be taken away with it. {2:4} You will know that I
have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,"
says Yahweh of Armies. {2:5} "My covenant was with him of life and
peace; and I gave them to him who he might be reverent toward me; and
he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name. {2:6} 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. {2:7} For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and
they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of
Yahweh of Armies. {2:8} But you have turned aside out of the way. You
have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the
covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Armies. {2:9} "Therefore I have also
made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the
way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the
law. {2:10} 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? {2:11} Judah has dealt treacherously, and
an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has
profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the
daughter of a foreign god. {2:12} Yahweh will cut off, to 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 Yahweh of Armies. {2:13} This
again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh 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. {2:14} Yet you say,
'Why?' Because Yahweh 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. {2:15} Did he not make
one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a
godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal
treacherously against the wife of his youth. {2:16} For I hate
divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his
garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to
your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously. {2:17} You have
wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, '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?'
{3:1} "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. {3:2} "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 launderer's soap; {3:3} 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 Yahweh
offerings in righteousness. {3:4} Then the offering of Judah and
Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh, as in the days of old, and as in
ancient years. {3:5} 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. {3:6}
"For I, Yahweh, don't change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not
consumed. {3:7} 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?' {3:8} Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How
have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings. {3:9} You are cursed
with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation. {3:10} 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. {3:11} 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 Yahweh of Armies. {3:12} "All nations shall call you blessed, for
you will be a delightful land," says Yahweh of Armies.
{3:13} "Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet
you say, 'What have we spoken against you?' {3:14} 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 Yahweh of
Armies? {3:15} Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work
wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.' {3:16} Then
those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened,
and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who
feared Yahweh, and who honored his name. {3:17} They shall be mine,"
says Yahweh of Armies, "my own possession in the day that I make, and
I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. {3:18}
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the
wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.
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