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| === 1 ===
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| <span id="M-1-1"></span>The burden of the word of the L<small>ORD</small> to Israel by Malachi.
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| '''<sup id="M-1-2">2</sup>''' I have loved you, saith the L<small>ORD</small>. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? ''Was'' not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the L<small>ORD</small>: yet I loved Jacob,
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| '''<sup id="M-1-3">3</sup>''' And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
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| '''<sup id="M-1-4">4</sup>''' Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the L<small>ORD</small> 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 L<small>ORD</small> hath indignation for ever.
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| '''<sup id="M-1-5">5</sup>''' And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The L<small>ORD</small> will be magnified from the border of Israel.
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| '''<sup id="M-1-6">6</sup>''' 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 L<small>ORD</small> of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
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| '''<sup id="M-1-7">7</sup>''' Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the L<small>ORD</small> ''is'' contemptible.
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| '''<sup id="M-1-8">8</sup>''' 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 L<small>ORD</small> of hosts.
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| '''<sup id="M-1-9">9</sup>''' 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 L<small>ORD</small> of hosts.
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| '''<sup id="M-1-10">10</sup>''' 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 L<small>ORD</small> of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
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| '''<sup id="M-1-11">11</sup>''' 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 L<small>ORD</small> of hosts.
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| '''<sup id="M-1-12">12</sup>''' But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the L<small>ORD</small> ''is'' polluted; and the fruit thereof, ''even'' his meat, ''is'' contemptible.
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| '''<sup id="M-1-13">13</sup>''' Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness ''is it''! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the L<small>ORD</small> of hosts; and ye brought ''that which was'' torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the L<small>ORD</small>.
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| '''<sup id="M-1-14">14</sup>''' But cursed ''be'' the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I ''am'' a great King, saith the L<small>ORD</small> of hosts, and my name ''is'' dreadful among the heathen.
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| === 2 ===
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| <span id="M-2-1"></span>And now, O ye priests, this commandment ''is'' for you.
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| '''<sup id="M-2-2">2</sup>''' If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay ''it'' to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the L<small>ORD</small> 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.
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| '''<sup id="M-2-3">3</sup>''' 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.
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| '''<sup id="M-2-4">4</sup>''' And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the L<small>ORD</small> of hosts.
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| '''<sup id="M-2-5">5</sup>''' My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him ''for'' the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
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| '''<sup id="M-2-6">6</sup>''' The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
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| '''<sup id="M-2-7">7</sup>''' For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he ''is'' the messenger of the L<small>ORD</small> of hosts.
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| '''<sup id="M-2-8">8</sup>''' But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the L<small>ORD</small> of hosts.
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| '''<sup id="M-2-9">9</sup>''' Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
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| '''<sup id="M-2-10">10</sup>''' Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
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| '''<sup id="M-2-11">11</sup>''' Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the L<small>ORD</small> which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
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| '''<sup id="M-2-12">12</sup>''' The L<small>ORD</small> 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 L<small>ORD</small> of hosts.
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| '''<sup id="M-2-13">13</sup>''' And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the L<small>ORD</small> with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth ''it'' with good will at your hand.
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| '''<sup id="M-2-14">14</sup>''' Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the L<small>ORD</small> hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet ''is'' she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
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| '''<sup id="M-2-15">15</sup>''' And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
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| '''<sup id="M-2-16">16</sup>''' For the L<small>ORD</small>, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for ''one'' covereth violence with his garment, saith the L<small>ORD</small> of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
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| '''<sup id="M-2-17">17</sup>''' Ye have wearied the L<small>ORD</small> with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied ''him''? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil ''is'' good in the sight of the L<small>ORD</small>, and he delighteth in them; or, Where ''is'' the God of judgment?
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| <span id="M-3-1"></span>Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the L<small>ORD</small> of hosts.
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| '''<sup id="M-3-2">2</sup>''' 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:
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| '''<sup id="M-3-3">3</sup>''' 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 L<small>ORD</small> an offering in righteousness.
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| '''<sup id="M-3-4">4</sup>''' Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the L<small>ORD</small>, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
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| '''<sup id="M-3-5">5</sup>''' 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 L<small>ORD</small> of hosts.
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| '''<sup id="M-3-6">6</sup>''' For I ''am'' the L<small>ORD</small>, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
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| '''<sup id="M-3-7">7</sup>''' 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 L<small>ORD</small> of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
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| '''<sup id="M-3-8">8</sup>''' Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
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| '''<sup id="M-3-9">9</sup>''' Ye ''are'' cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, ''even'' this whole nation.
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| '''<sup id="M-3-10">10</sup>''' Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the L<small>ORD</small> 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''.
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| '''<sup id="M-3-11">11</sup>''' 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 L<small>ORD</small> of hosts.
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| '''<sup id="M-3-12">12</sup>''' And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the L<small>ORD</small> of hosts.
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| '''<sup id="M-3-13">13</sup>''' Your words have been stout against me, saith the L<small>ORD</small>. Yet ye say, What have we spoken ''so much'' against thee?
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| '''<sup id="M-3-14">14</sup>''' Ye have said, It ''is'' vain to serve God: and what profit ''is it'' that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the L<small>ORD</small> of hosts?
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| '''<sup id="M-3-15">15</sup>''' And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, ''they that'' tempt God are even delivered.
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| '''<sup id="M-3-16">16</sup>''' Then they that feared the L<small>ORD</small> spake often one to another: and the L<small>ORD</small> hearkened, and heard ''it'', and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the L<small>ORD</small>, and that thought upon his name.
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| '''<sup id="M-3-17">17</sup>''' And they shall be mine, saith the L<small>ORD</small> of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
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| '''<sup id="M-3-18">18</sup>''' Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
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| <span id="M-4-1"></span>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 L<small>ORD</small> of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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| '''<sup id="M-4-2">2</sup>''' But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
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| '''<sup id="M-4-3">3</sup>''' And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do ''this'', saith the L<small>ORD</small> of hosts.
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| '''<sup id="M-4-4">4</sup>''' Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, ''with'' the statutes and judgments.
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| '''<sup id="M-4-5">5</sup>''' Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the L<small>ORD</small>:
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| '''<sup id="M-4-6">6</sup>''' 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.
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