GetPassageurn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:39urn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:39The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi . I have loved you , saith Jehovah ; but ye say , Wherein hast thou loved us ? Was not Esau Jacob's brother ? saith Jehovah , and I loved Jacob , and I hated Esau ; and made his mountains a desolation , and [ gave ] his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness . If Edom say , We are broken down , but we will build again the ruined places , -- thus saith Jehovah of hosts : They shall build , but I will throw down ; and [ men ] shall call them the territory of wickedness , and the people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever . And your eyes shall see [ it ] , and ye shall say , Jehovah is magnified beyond the border of Israel . A son honoureth [ his ] father , and a servant his master : if then I be a father , where is mine honour ? and if I be a master , where is my fear ? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you , priests , that despise my name . But ye say , Wherein have we despised thy name ? Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar ; and ye say , Wherein have we polluted thee ? In that ye say , The table of Jehovah is contemptible . And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice , is it not evil ? And if ye offer the lame and sick , is it not evil ? Present it now unto thy governor : will he be pleased with thee ? or will he accept thy person ? saith Jehovah of hosts . And now , I pray you , beseech God that he will be gracious unto us . This hath been of your hand : will he accept any of your persons ? saith Jehovah of hosts . Who is there among you that would even shut the doors ? and ye would not kindle [ fire ] on mine altar for nothing . I have no delight in you , saith Jehovah of hosts , neither will I accept an oblation at your hand . For from the rising of the sun even unto its setting my name shall be great among the nations ; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name , and a pure oblation : for my name shall be great among the nations , saith Jehovah of hosts . But ye profane it , in that ye say , The table of the Lord is polluted ; and the fruit thereof , his food , is contemptible . And ye say , Behold , what a weariness ! And ye have puffed at it , saith Jehovah of hosts , and ye bring [ that which was ] torn , and the lame , and the sick ; thus ye bring the oblation : should I accept this of your hand ? saith Jehovah . Yea , cursed be the deceiver , who hath in his flock a male , and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing ; for I am a great King , saith Jehovah of hosts , and my name is terrible among the nations . And now , ye priests , this commandment is for you . If ye do not hear , and if ye do not lay [ it ] to heart , to give glory unto my name , saith Jehovah of hosts , I will even send the curse among you , and I will curse your blessings : yea , I have already cursed them , because ye do not lay [ it ] to heart . Behold , I will rebuke your seed , and spread dung upon your faces , the dung of your feasts ; and they shall take you away with it . And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you , that my covenant might be with Levi , saith Jehovah of hosts . My covenant with him was of life and peace , and I gave them to him that he might fear ; and he feared me , and trembled before my name . The law of truth was in his mouth , and unrighteousness was not found in his lips : he walked with me in peace and uprightness , and he turned many from iniquity . For the priest's lips should keep knowledge , and at his mouth they seek the law ; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts . But ye are departed out of the way ; ye have caused many to stumble at the law ; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi , saith Jehovah of hosts . And I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people , because ye have not kept my ways , but have respect of persons in [ administering ] the law . Have we not all one father ? Hath not one God created us ? Why do we deal unfaithfully every man against his brother , by profaning the covenant of our fathers ? Judah hath dealt unfaithfully , and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem ; for Judah hath profaned the sanctuary of Jehovah which he loved , and hath married the daughter of a strange god . Jehovah will cut off from the tents of Jacob the man that doeth this , him that calleth and him that answereth ; and him that offereth an oblation unto Jehovah of hosts . And further ye do this : ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears , with weeping , and with sighing , insomuch that he regardeth not the oblation any more , nor receiveth [ it ] with satisfaction at your hand . Yet ye say , Wherefore ? Because Jehovah hath been a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth , against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully : yet is she thy companion , and the wife of thy covenant . And did not one make [ them ] ? and the remnant of the Spirit was his . And wherefore the one ? He sought a seed of God . Take heed then to your spirit , and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth , ( for I hate putting away , saith Jehovah the God of Israel ; ) and he covereth with violence his garment , saith Jehovah of hosts : take heed then to your spirit , that ye deal not unfaithfully . Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words , and ye say , Wherein have we wearied [ him ] ? In that ye say , Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah , and he delighteth in them ; or , Where is the God of judgment ? Behold , I send my messenger , and he shall prepare the way before me ; and the Lord whom ye seek will suddenly come to his temple , and the Angel of the covenant , whom ye delight in : behold , he cometh , saith Jehovah of hosts . But who shall endure the day of his coming ? and who shall stand when he appeareth ? For he will be like a refiner's fire , and like fullers' lye . And he shall sit [ as ] a refiner and purifier of silver ; and he will purify the children of Levi , and purge them as gold and silver ; and they shall offer unto Jehovah an oblation in righteousness . Then shall the oblation of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto Jehovah , as in the days of old , and as in former years . 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 the false swearers , and against those that oppress the hired servant in [ his ] wages , the widow and the fatherless , and that turn aside the stranger [ from his right ] , and fear not me , saith Jehovah of hosts . For I Jehovah change not , and ye , sons of Jacob , are not consumed . Since the days of your fathers have ye departed from my statutes , and have not kept them . Return unto me , and I will return unto you , saith Jehovah of hosts . But ye say , Wherein shall we return ? Will a man rob God ? But ye rob me . And ye say , Wherein do we rob thee ? [ In ] tithes and heave-offerings . Ye are cursed with a curse ; and me ye rob , [ even ] this whole nation . Bring the whole tithe into the treasure-house , that there may be food in my house , and prove me now herewith , saith Jehovah of hosts , if I open not to you the windows of the heavens , and pour you out a blessing , till there be no place for it . And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes , and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground ; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before the time in the field , saith Jehovah of hosts . And all nations shall call you blessed ; for ye shall be a delightsome land , saith Jehovah of hosts . Your words have been stout against me , saith Jehovah ; but ye say , What have we been speaking against thee ? Ye say , It is vain to serve God ; and what profit is it that we keep his charge , and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts ? And now we hold the proud for happy ; yea , they that work wickedness are built up ; yea , they tempt God , and they escape . Then they that feared Jehovah spoke often one to another ; and Jehovah observed [ it ] , and heard , and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared Jehovah , and that thought upon his name . And they shall be unto me a peculiar treasure , saith Jehovah of hosts , in the day that I prepare ; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him . And ye shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked , between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not . For behold , the day cometh , burning as a furnace ; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble ; and the day that cometh shall burn them up , saith Jehovah of hosts , so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch . And unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings ; and ye shall go forth and leap like fatted calves . And ye shall tread down the wicked ; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I prepare , saith Jehovah of hosts . Remember the law of Moses my servant , which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel , the statutes and ordinances . Behold , I send unto you Elijah the prophet , before the coming of the great and terrible day of Jehovah . And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children , and the heart of the children to their fathers , lest I come and smite the earth with a curse .