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Malachi 3 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:1 - See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:2 - But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:3 - He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:4 - Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord, as in days gone by, and as in past years.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5 - And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:6 - For I am the Lord, I am unchanged; and so you, O sons of Jacob, have not been cut off.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:7 - From the days of your fathers you have been turned away from my rules and have not kept them. Come back to me, and I will come back to you, says the Lord of armies. But you say, How are we to come back?

You Have Robbed God

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:8 - Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:9 - You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:10 - Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:11 - And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:12 - And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:13 - Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:14 - You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:15 - And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.

The Book of Remembrance

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:16 - Then those in whom was the fear of the Lord had talk together: and the Lord gave ear, and it was recorded in a book to be kept in mind before him, for those who had the fear of the Lord and gave thought to his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:17 - And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:18 - Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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