Malaquias 3

1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the

2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he

3 And he shall sit

4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the

5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in

6 For I

7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept

8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

9 Ye

10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the

11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the

12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the

13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the

14 Ye have said, It

15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea,

16 Then they that feared the

17 And they shall be mine, saith the

18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.