Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. For I am the LORD, I change not therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. 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. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. And he shall sit as a refiner and purifer 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. 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: Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to this temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them or, Where is the God of judgment? Mal.3 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand. The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts. Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law. 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 the LORD of hosts. For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. My covenant was with him of life and peace and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts and one shall take you away with it. Bible, King James Version Bible, King James Version
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