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Malachi 3 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:1 - [fn] Behold, I send forth my messenger, and he shall survey the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come into his temple, even the angel of the covenant, whom ye take pleasure in: behold, he is coming, saith the Lord Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:2 - And who will [fn]abide the day of his coming? or who will withstand at his appearing? for he is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of [fn]fullers.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:3 - He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and [fn]refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:4 - And the sacrifice of Juda and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the Lord, according to the former days, and according to the former years.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5 - And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the widow, and [fn]afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:6 - For I am the Lord your God, and I am not changed:
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:7 - but ye, the sons of Jacob, have not refrained from the iniquities of your fathers: ye have perverted my statutes, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, saith the Lord Almighty. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:8 - Will a man insult God? for ye insult me. But ye say, Wherein have we insulted thee? In that the tithes and first-fruits are with you still.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:9 - And ye do surely look off from me, and ye insult me.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:10 - The year is completed, and ye have brought all the produce into the storehouses; but there shall be the plunder thereof in its house: return now on this behalf, saith the Lord Almighty, see if I will not open to you the [fn]torrents of heaven, and pour out my blessing upon you, until ye are satisfied.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:11 - And I will [fn]appoint food for you, and I will not destroy the fruit of your land; and your vine in the field shall not fail, saith the Lord Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:12 - And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a desirable land, saith the Lord Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:13 - Ye have spoken grievous words against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye said, Wherein have we spoken against thee?
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:14 - Ye said, He that serves God [fn]labours in vain: and what have we gained in that we have kept his ordinances, and in that we have walked as suppliants before the face of the Lord Almighty?
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:15 - And now we pronounce strangers blessed; and all they who act unlawfully are built up; and they have resisted God, and yet have been delivered.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:16 - Thus spoke they that feared the Lord, every one to his neighbour: and the Lord gave heed, and hearkened, and he wrote a book of remembrance before him for them that feared the Lord and reverenced his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:17 - And they shall be [fn]mine, saith the Lord Almighty, in the day which I appoint for a peculiar possession; and I will make choice of them, as a man makes choice of his son that serves him.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:18 - Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, and between him that serves God, and him that serves him not.
BES Footnotes
Mat. 11:10.
Or, wait for.
Gr. them that wash.
Gr. pour.
Gr. beat with the fist.
Or, windows, see Gen 7:11, there rendered 'flood-gates.'
Or, give a charge for you to be fed. Alex.
Gr. is vain.
Gr. for me.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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