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The priests MALACHI. sharply reproved. mountains and his heritage waste for] 14 But cursed be the deceiver, which the dragons of the wilderness. hath in his flock a male, and voweth,

4 Whereas Edom saith, We are im-and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corpoverished, but we will return and rupt thing: for I am a great King, build the desolate places; thus saith saith the LORD of hosts, and my name the LORD of hosts, They shall build, is dreadful among the heathen. but I will throw down; and they shall CHAP. II.

call them, 'The border of wickedness, ove and, The people against whom the AND now, O ye priests, this com the mandment is for you. LORD bath indiguation for ever. 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye wil not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, 1 will even send a curse upon you, and

5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be maguified from the border of Israel.

6 ¶ A son honoureth his father, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I aservant his master: if then I be a fa-have cursed them already, because je ther, where is mine honour? and if I do not lay it to heart.

be a master, where is my fear? saith 3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, and spread dung upon your faces, that despise my name. And ye say, even the dung of your solemn feasts; Wherein have we despised thy name? and one shall take you away with it. 7 Ye offer polluted_bread upon mine 4 And ye shall know that I have sent altar; and ye say, Wherein have we this commandment unto you, that my polluted thee? In that ye say, The covenant might be with Levi, saith table of the LORD is contemptible. the LORD of hosts.

8 And if ye offer the blind for sacri- 5 My covenant was with him of life fice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the and peace; and I gave them to him lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it for the fear wherewith he feared me, now unto thy governor; will he beland was afraid before my name. pleased with thee, or accept thy pergon? saith the LonD of hosts. 9 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.

6 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.

7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the 10 Who is there even among you that law at his mouth: for he is the mes would shut the doors for nought? nei-senger of the LORD of hosts. ther do y'e kindle fire on mine altar for 8 But ye are departed out of the way Į nought. I have no pleasure in you, ye have caused many to stumble at saith the LORD of hosts, neither will the law; ye have corrupted the cove1 accept an offering at your hand.

11 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 LonD of hosts.

12 But ye have profaned it, io that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his neat, is contemptible.

naut of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts, 9 Therefore have 1 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.

10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against i his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

11 ¶ Judah bath dealt treacherously and au abomination is committed in 13 Ye said also, Behold, what a wea-Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah riness is it ! and ye have enuffed at it, hath profaned the holiness of the Lons saith the LORD of hosts; and ye which he loved, and hath married the brought that which was torn, and the daughter of a strange god. lume, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your band? saith the Load.

12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Ja

The majesty and

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grace of Christ.

cob, and him that offereth an offering hireling in his wages, the widow, and unto the LORD of hosts. the fatherless, and that turn aside the 13. And this have ye done again, cov stranger from his right, and fear not ering the altar of the Lond with tears, me, saith the LORD of hosts. with weeping, and with crying out, 6 For I am the LORD, I change not; insomuch that be regardeth not the therefore ye sons of Jacob are not offering any more, or receiveth it with consumed.

good will at your hand.

7 ¶ Even from the days of your fa14 ¶ Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because thers ye are gone away from mine the LORD bath been witness between ordinances, and have not kept them. thee and the wife of thy youth,sgainst Return unto me, and 1 will return unwhom thou hast dealt treacherously: to you, saith the Long of hosts. But yet is she thy companion, and the ye said, Wherein shall we return ? wife of thy covenant. 8 T Will a man rob God? yet ye 15 And did not he make one? Yet have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein had he the residue of the Spirit. And have we robbed thee? In tithes and wherefore one? That he might seek offerings.

a godly seed. Therefore take heed to 9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye your spirit,and let none deal treacher- bave robbed me, even this whole naously against the wife of his youth. tion.

16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the saith that he hateth putting away:store-house, that there may be meat in for one covereth violence with bis gar- my house, and prove me now herement, saith the LORD of hosts: there-with, saith the LonD of hosts, if I will fore take heed to your spirit, that ye not open you the windows of heaven, deal not treacherously. and pour you out a blessing that there 17 Ye have wearied the Lond with shall not be room enough to receive it. your words. Yet ye say, Wherein 11 And 1 will rebuke the devourer have we wearied him? When ye say, for your sakes,and he shall not destroy Every one that doeth evil is good in the fruits of your ground; neither shall the eight of the LORD, and he delight-your vine cast her fruit before the time eth in them; or,Where is the God of in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. judgment? 12 And all nations shall call you blessed; for ye shall be a delightsome land,

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BEHOLD, I will send my messen- saith the LORD of hosts

ger, and he shall prepare the way 13Your words have been stout against before me and the LORD, whom yelme, saith the LORD: yet ye say, What seek, shall suddenly come to his tem-have we spoken so much against thee? ple, even the messenger of the cove- 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve nant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. 2 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:

eousness.

God; and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

15 And now we call the proud happy ; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and be shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as 16 ¶ Then they that feared the LORD gold and silver, that they may offer spake often one to another; and the unto the LORD an offering in right- 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. 17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD 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 kim,

Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

5 And I will come near to you to judginent; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against che adulterers,and against false swear ers,and against those that oppress the

18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked;

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Elijah's coming and office between him that serveth God, and 3 And ye shall tread down the wick him that serveth him not. ed; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet, in the day that I

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FOR, behold, the day cometh that shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.

burn as an oven; and all the 4 T Remember ye the law of Moses proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, my servant, which I commanded unto shall be stubble: and the day that him in Horeb for all Israel, with the cometh shall burn them up, saith the statutes and judgments.

LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

2 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 stail,

5 1 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 6 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 852

THE END OF THE PROPHETS.

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