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Malachi 3 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 3
The Coming Messenger
The Coming Messenger of God
1 “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.
​
2 ​​“But who can endure the day of His coming?
​​And who can stand when He appears?
​​For He is like a refiner’s fire
​​And like launderers’ soap.
3 ​​He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver;
​​He will purify the sons of Levi,
​​And purge them as gold and silver,
​​That they may offer to the LORD
​​An offering in righteousness.
​
4 ​​“Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem
​​Will be pleasant to the LORD,
​​As in the days of old,
​​As in former years.
5 ​​And I will come near you for judgment;
​​I will be a swift witness
​​Against sorcerers,
​​Against adulterers,
​​Against perjurers,
​​Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans,
​​And against those who turn away an alien—
​​Because they do not fear Me,”
​​Says the LORD of hosts.
​
6 ​​“For I am the LORD, I do not change;
​​Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.
7 ​​Yet from the days of your fathers
​​You have gone away from My ordinances
​​And have not kept them.
​​Return to Me, and I will return to you,”
​​Says the LORD of hosts.
​​“But you said,
​‘​In what way shall we return?’
​
Do Not Rob God
8 ​​“Will a man rob God?
​​Yet you have robbed Me!
​​But you say,
​‘​In what way have we robbed You?’
​​In tithes and offerings.
9 ​​You are cursed with a curse,
​​For you have robbed Me,
​​Even this whole nation.
10 ​​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.
​
11 ​​“And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes,
​​So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground,
​​Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,”
​​Says the LORD of hosts;
12 ​​And all nations will call you blessed,
​​For you will be a delightful land,”
​​Says the LORD of hosts.
The People Complain Harshly
13 ​​“Your words have been harsh against Me,”
​​Says the LORD,
​​“Yet you say,
​‘​What have we spoken against You?’
14 ​​You have said,
​‘​It is useless to serve God;
​​What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,
​​And that we have walked as mourners
​​Before the LORD of hosts?
15 ​​So now we call the proud blessed,
​​For those who do wickedness are raised up;
​​They even tempt God and go free.’ ”
​
A Book of Remembrance
16 ​​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.
​
17 ​​“They shall be Mine,” says the LORD of hosts,
​​“On the day that I make them My jewels.[fn]
​​And I will spare them
​​As a man spares his own son who serves him.”
18 ​​Then you shall again discern
​​Between the righteous and the wicked,
​​Between one who serves God
​​And one who does not serve Him.
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