The promise of blessing
MALA CHI, IV.
to them that fear God.
the sods of Levi, and
gold and silver, that '
unto the Lobd an o:
kept 9 his ordinance, and that we have
walked 8 mournfully before the Lord
of hosts ?
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15 And now ewe call the proud happy;
yea, they that work wickedness ‘are
set u^jea^Mey (hat * tempt God are
16 f Then they «that feared the Lord
/spake often one to another: and the
Lord hearkened, and heard it, and 0a
book of remembrance was written be¬
fore him for them that feared the
Lord, and that thought upon his
name.
17 And Athey shall be mine, saith
the Lord of hosts, in that day when I
make up my •< jewels ; and 4 1 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.
CHAPTER IV.
4 Then * shall the offering of Judah
and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the
Lord, as in the days of old, and as
in 9 former years.
5 And I will come near to you to Judg¬
ment; and 1 will be a swift witness
against the sorcerers, and against the
NEW TESTAMENT
adulterers, ' and against false swearers,
and against those that 8 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 IT Even from the days of 0 your fa¬
thers ye are
копе,
away from mino
ordinances, and have not kept them.
P Return unto me, and I will return un¬
to you, saith the Lord of hosts, fl But
ye said. Wherein shall we return ?
8 Y Will a man rob God? Yet ye
have robbed me.: Bytye say. Wherein
have we rob bed, thee t r In tithes and
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shall bum as an oven ; and all 4 the
proud, yea, and all that do wickedly,
shall be «stubble : and the day that
cometh shall bum them up, saith the
Lord of hosts, that it shall “leave them
neither root nor branch.
2 IT But unto you that
«
fear my name
shall the /Sun of righteousness arise
with healing in his wings ; and ye shall
go forth, and grow up as calves of the
stall.
3 0And ye shall tread down the wick¬
ed ; for they shall be ashes under the
soles of your feet in the day that I shall
do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
4
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Remember ye the 4 law of Mose3
ray servant, which I commanded unto
him *in Horeb for all Israel, with 4 the
statutes and judgments.
5 Y Behold, I will send you 'Elijah
the prophet "before the coming of
the great and dreadful day of the
Lord :
6 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.
9 Ye are c
ye have rob!
nation.
10
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Bring
у
the tithes into * the
there may be meat
. and f prove me now
herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if
I will not open you the “windows of
heaven, and 4 * pour you out a bless¬
ing, that there shall not be room enough
to receive iL
11 And I will rebuke t»the devourer
for your sakoe, and ho shall not “de¬
stroy tho fruits of your ground ; nei¬
ther shall your vine cast her fruit
before the time in tho field, saith tho
Lord of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you
blessed: for ye shall be *a delight¬
some land, saith the Lord of hosts.
13
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“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
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