| 001 | The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. | 1:1 |
| 002 | I have loved you,” says the Lord. “Yet you say, ‘In what way have You loved us?’ Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” Says the Lord. “Yet Jacob I have loved; | 1:2 |
| 003 | But Esau I have hated | 1:3 |
| 004 | “And now, O priests, this commandment is for you. 2 If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to My name,” Says the Lord of hosts, “I will send a curse upon you, And I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart. | 2:1-2 |
| 005 | “For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, and people should seek the law from his mouth; For he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. | 2:7 |
| 006 | “For the Lord God of Israel says That He hates divorce, for it covers one’s garment with violence,” says the Lord of hosts. “Therefore, take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.” | 2:16 |
| 007 | “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, Even the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He is coming,” says the Lord of hosts. | 3:1 |
| 008 | For He is like a refiner’s fire and like launderer’s soap. | 3:2 |
| 009 | For I am the Lord, I do not change; Therefore, you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob. | 3:6 |
| 010 | “Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings. | 3:8 |
| 011 | Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this,” Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it. | 3:10 |
| 012 | Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, And the Lord listened and heard them; So, a book of remembrance was written before Him For those who fear the Lord And who meditate on His name. | 3:16 |
| 013 | “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, and all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” Says the Lord of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch. | 4:1 |
| 014 | But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings; And you shall go out and grow fat like stall-fed calves. | 4:2 |
| 015 | Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. | 4:5 |
| 016 | And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.” | 4:6 |
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