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
LORD
of
hosts.
2
But
who
may
abide
the
day
of
his
coming?
and
who
shall
stand
when
he
appeareth?
for
he
[is]
like
a
refiner’s
fire,
and
like
fullers’
soap:
3
And
he
shall
sit
[as]
a
refiner
and
purifier
of
silver:
and
he
shall
purify
the
sons
of
Levi,
and
purge
them
as
gold
and
silver,
that
they
may
offer
unto
the
LORD
an
offering
in
righteousness.
4
Then
shall
the
offering
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem
be
pleasant
unto
the
LORD,
as
in
the
days
of
old,
and
as
in
former
years.
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
[his]
wages,
the
widow,
and
the
fatherless,
and
that
turn
aside
the
stranger
[from
his
right],
and
fear
not
me,
saith
the
LORD
of
hosts.
6
For
I
[am]
the
LORD,
I
change
not;
therefore
ye
sons
of
Jacob
are
not
consumed.
7
Even
from
the
days
of
your
fathers
ye
are
gone
away
from
mine
ordinances,
and
have
not
kept
[them].
Return
unto
me,
and
I
will
return
unto
you,
saith
the
LORD
of
hosts.
But
ye
said,
Wherein
shall
we
return?
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
[are]
cursed
with
a
curse:
for
ye
have
robbed
me,
[even]
this
whole
nation.
10
Bring
ye
all
the
tithes
into
the
storehouse,
that
there
may
be
meat
in
mine
house,
and
prove
me
now
herewith,
saith
the
LORD
of
hosts,
if
I
will
not
open
you
the
windows
of
heaven,
and
pour
you
out
a
blessing,
that
[there
shall]
not
[be
room]
enough
[to
receive
it].
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
LORD
of
hosts.
12
And
all
nations
shall
call
you
blessed:
for
ye
shall
be
a
delightsome
land,
saith
the
LORD
of
hosts.
13
Your
words
have
been
stout
against
me,
saith
the
LORD.
Yet
ye
say,
What
have
we
spoken
[so
much]
against
thee?
14
Ye
have
said,
It
[is]
vain
to
serve
God:
and
what
profit
[is
it]
that
we
have
kept
his
ordinance,
and
that
we
have
walked
mournfully
before
the
LORD
of
hosts?
15
And
now
we
call
the
proud
happy;
yea,
they
that
work
wickedness
are
set
up;
yea,
[they
that]
tempt
God
are
even
delivered.
16
Then
they
that
feared
the
LORD
spake
often
one
to
another:
and
the
LORD
hearkened,
and
heard
[it],
and
a
book
of
remembrance
was
written
before
him
for
them
that
feared
the
LORD,
and
that
thought
upon
his
name.
17
And
they
shall
be
mine,
saith
the
LORD
of
hosts,
in
that
day
when
I
make
up
my
jewels;
and
I
will
spare
them,
as
a
man
spareth
his
own
son
that
serveth
him.
18
Then
shall
ye
return,
and
discern
between
the
righteous
and
the
wicked,
between
him
that
serveth
God
and
him
that
serveth
him
not.