\NormalFont\ShortTitle{Malachi}

{\MT MALACHI.



\par }\ChapOne{1}{\MM \VerseOne{1}{\SC{The}} burden of the word of the
{\SC{Lord}} to Israel by Malachi.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}I have loved you, saith the
{\SC{Lord}}.

\par }{\Q Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us?

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Was}} not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the
{\SC{Lord}}:

\par }{\Q Yet I loved Jacob,


\par }{\Q \VS{3}And I hated Esau,

\par }{\Q And laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished,

\par }{\Q But we will return and build the desolate places;

\par }{\Q Thus saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts,

\par }{\Q They shall build, but I will throw down;

\par }{\Q And they shall call them, The border of wickedness,

\par }{\Q And, The people
{\ADD{against}} whom the
{\SC{Lord}} hath indignation for ever.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say,

\par }{\Q The
{\SC{Lord}} will be magnified from the border of Israel.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{6}A son honoureth
{\ADD{his}} father, and a servant his master:

\par }{\Q If then I
{\ADD{be}} a father, where
{\ADD{is}} mine honour?

\par }{\Q And if I
{\ADD{be}} a master, where
{\ADD{is}} my fear?

\par }{\Q Saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name.

\par }{\Q And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?


\par }{\Q \VS{7}{\ADD{Ye}} offer polluted bread upon mine altar;

\par }{\Q And ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee?

\par }{\Q In that ye say, The table of the
{\SC{Lord}}
{\ADD{is}} contemptible.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice,
{\ADD{is it}} not evil?

\par }{\Q And if ye offer the lame and sick,
{\ADD{is it}} not evil?

\par }{\Q Offer it now unto thy governor;

\par }{\Q Will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us:

\par }{\Q This hath been by your means:

\par }{\Q Will he regard your persons? saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Who
{\ADD{is there}} even among you that would shut the doors
{\ADD{for nought?}}

\par }{\Q Neither do ye kindle
{\ADD{fire on}} mine altar for nought.

\par }{\Q I have no pleasure in you, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts,

\par }{\Q Neither will I accept an offering at your hand.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same

\par }{\Q My name
{\ADD{shall be}} great among the Gentiles;

\par }{\Q And in every place incense
{\ADD{shall be}} offered unto my name, and a pure offering:

\par }{\Q For my name
{\ADD{shall be}} great among the heathen, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}But ye
{\ADD{have}} profaned it, in that ye say,

\par }{\Q The table of the
{\SC{Lord}}
{\ADD{is}} polluted;

\par }{\Q And the fruit thereof,
{\ADD{even}} his meat,
{\ADD{is}} contemptible.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness
{\ADD{is it!}}

\par }{\Q And ye have snuffed at it, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts;

\par }{\Q And ye brought
{\ADD{that which was}} torn, and the lame, and the sick;

\par }{\Q Thus ye brought an offering:

\par }{\Q Should I accept this of your hand? saith the
{\SC{Lord}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}But cursed
{\ADD{be}} the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male,

\par }{\Q And voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt
{\ADD{thing:}}

\par }{\Q For I
{\ADD{am}} a great King, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts,

\par }{\Q And my name
{\ADD{is}} dreadful among the heathen.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{2}{\Q \VerseOne{1}And now, O ye priests, this commandment
{\ADD{is}} for you.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay
{\ADD{it}} to heart,

\par }{\Q To give glory unto my name, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts,

\par }{\Q I will even send a curse upon you, and will curse your blessings:

\par }{\Q Yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay
{\ADD{it}} to heart.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Behold, I
{\ADD{will}} corrupt your seed,

\par }{\Q And spread dung upon your faces,
{\ADD{even}} the dung of your solemn feasts;

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{one}} shall take you away with it.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you,

\par }{\Q That my covenant might be with Levi, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}My covenant was with him of life and peace;

\par }{\Q And I gave them to him
{\ADD{for}} the fear wherewith he feared me,

\par }{\Q And was afraid before my name.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}The law of truth was in his mouth,

\par }{\Q And iniquity was not found in his lips:

\par }{\Q He walked with me in peace and equity,

\par }{\Q And did turn many away from iniquity.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge,

\par }{\Q And they should seek the law at his mouth:

\par }{\Q For he
{\ADD{is}} the messenger of the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}But ye are departed out of the way;

\par }{\Q Ye have caused many to stumble at the law;

\par }{\Q Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people,

\par }{\Q According as ye have not kept my ways,

\par }{\Q But have been partial in the law.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{10}Have we not all one father?

\par }{\Q Hath not one God created us?

\par }{\Q Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother,

\par }{\Q By profaning the covenant of our fathers?


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Judah hath dealt treacherously,

\par }{\Q And an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem;

\par }{\Q For Judah hath profaned the holiness of the
{\SC{Lord}} which he loved,

\par }{\Q And hath married the daughter of a strange god.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}The
{\SC{Lord}} will cut off the man that doth this, the master and the scholar,

\par }{\Q Out of the tabernacles of Jacob,

\par }{\Q And him that offereth an offering unto the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}And this have ye done again,

\par }{\Q Covering the altar of the
{\SC{Lord}}
{\ADD{with}} tears,
{\ADD{with}} weeping, and
{\ADD{with}} crying out,

\par }{\Q Insomuch that
{\ADD{he}} regardeth not the offering any more,

\par }{\Q Or receiveth
{\ADD{it with}} good will at your hand.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Yet ye say, Wherefore?

\par }{\Q Because the
{\SC{Lord}} hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth,

\par }{\Q Against whom thou hast dealt treacherously:

\par }{\Q Yet
{\ADD{is}} she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit.

\par }{\Q And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed.

\par }{\Q Therefore take heed to your spirit,

\par }{\Q And let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}{\ADD{For}} the
{\SC{Lord}}, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away:

\par }{\Q For
{\ADD{one}} covereth violence with his garment, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts:

\par }{\Q Therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{17}Ye have wearied the
{\SC{Lord}} with your words.

\par }{\Q Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied
{\ADD{him}}?

\par }{\Q When ye say, Every one that doeth evil
{\ADD{is}} good in the sight of the
{\SC{Lord}},

\par }{\Q And he delighteth in them;

\par }{\Q Or, Where
{\ADD{is}} the God of judgment?


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{3}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Behold, I
{\ADD{will}} send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me:

\par }{\Q And the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple,

\par }{\Q Even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in:

\par }{\Q Behold, he
{\ADD{shall}} come, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}But who
{\ADD{may}} abide the day of his coming?

\par }{\Q And who
{\ADD{shall}} stand when he appeareth?

\par }{\Q For he
{\ADD{is}} like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ sope:


\par }{\Q \VS{3}And he shall sit
{\ADD{as}} a refiner and purifier of silver:

\par }{\Q And he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver,

\par }{\Q That they may offer unto the
{\SC{Lord}} an offering in righteousness.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the
{\SC{Lord}},

\par }{\Q As
{\ADD{in}} the days of old, and as
{\ADD{in}} former years.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}And I will come near to you to judgment;

\par }{\Q And I will be a swift witness

\par }{\Q Against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers,

\par }{\Q And against those that oppress the hireling in
{\ADD{his}} wages,

\par }{\Q The widow, and the fatherless,

\par }{\Q And that turn aside the stranger
{\ADD{from his right}}, and fear not me,

\par }{\Q Saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}For I
{\ADD{am}} the
{\SC{Lord}}, I change not;

\par }{\Q Therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{7}Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept
{\ADD{them}}.

\par }{\Q Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts.

\par }{\Q But ye said, Wherein shall we return?


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Will a man rob God? Yet ye
{\ADD{have}} robbed me.

\par }{\Q But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee?

\par }{\Q {\ADD{In}} tithes and offerings.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Ye
{\ADD{are}} cursed with a curse: for ye
{\ADD{have}} robbed me,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Even}} this whole nation.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,

\par }{\Q That there may be meat in mine house,

\par }{\Q And prove me now herewith, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts,

\par }{\Q If I will not open you the windows of heaven,

\par }{\Q And pour you out a blessing, that
{\ADD{there shall}} not
{\ADD{be room}} enough
{\ADD{to receive it}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes,

\par }{\Q And he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground;

\par }{\Q Neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}And all nations shall call you blessed:

\par }{\Q For ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Your words have been stout against me, saith the
{\SC{Lord}}.

\par }{\Q Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Ye have said, It
{\ADD{is}} vain to serve God:

\par }{\Q And what profit
{\ADD{is it}} that we have kept his ordinance,

\par }{\Q And that we have walked mournfully before the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts?


\par }{\Q \VS{15}And now we call the proud happy;

\par }{\Q Yea, they that work wickedness are set up;

\par }{\Q Yea,
{\ADD{they that}} tempt God are even delivered.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{16}Then they that feared the
{\SC{Lord}} spake often one to another:

\par }{\Q And the
{\SC{Lord}} hearkened, and heard
{\ADD{it}},

\par }{\Q And a book of remembrance was written before him

\par }{\Q For them that feared the
{\SC{Lord}}, and that thought upon his name.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}And they shall be mine, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts,

\par }{\Q In that day when I make
{\ADD{up my}} jewels;

\par }{\Q And I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked,

\par }{\Q Between him that serveth God and
{\ADD{him}} that serveth him not.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{4}{\Q \VerseOne{1}For behold, the day cometh, that
{\ADD{shall}} burn as an oven;

\par }{\Q And all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble:

\par }{\Q And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts,

\par }{\Q That it shall leave them neither root nor branch.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise

\par }{\Q With healing in his wings;

\par }{\Q And ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}And ye shall tread down the wicked;

\par }{\Q For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet

\par }{\Q In the day that I
{\ADD{shall}} do
{\ADD{this}}, saith the
{\SC{Lord}} of hosts.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{4}Remember ye the law of Moses my servant,

\par }{\Q Which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{With}} the statutes and judgments.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}Behold, I
{\ADD{will}} send you Elijah the prophet

\par }{\Q Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the
{\SC{Lord}}:


\par }{\Q \VS{6}And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children,

\par }{\Q And the heart of the children to their fathers,

\par }{\Q Lest I come and smite the earth
{\ADD{with}} a curse.


\par }