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Chapter 3
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Look, I am going to send my messenger to prepare a way before me. And the Lord you are seeking will suddenly enter his Temple; and the angel of the covenant whom you are longing for, yes, he is coming, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
2
Who will be able to resist the day of his coming? Who will remain standing when he appears? For he is like the refiner’s fire and the fullers’ alkali.
3
He will take his seat as refiner and purifier; he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and then they will make the offering to Yahweh as it should be made.
4
The offering of Judah and Jerusalem will then be welcomed by Yahweh as in former days, as in the years of old.
5
I mean to visit you for the judgement and I am going to be a ready witness against sorcerer, adulterer and perjurer, against those who oppress the wage-earner, the widow and the orphan, and who rob the settler of his rights-no need for you to be afraid of me, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
Temple tithes
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No; I, Yahweh, do not change; and you, sons of Jacob, you are not ruined yet!
7
Since the days of your ancestors you have evaded my statutes and not observed them. Return to me and I will return to you, says Yahweh Sabaoth. You ask, ‘How are we to return?
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Can a man cheat God?’ Yet you are cheating me. You ask, ‘How are we cheating you?’ In the matter of tithes and dues.
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The curse lies on you because you, yes you the whole nation, are cheating me.
10
Bring the full tithes and dues to the storehouse so that there may be food in my house, and then see if I do not open the floodgates of heaven for you and pour out blessing for you in abundance.
11
For your sake I will lay a strict injunction on the locust not to destroy the fruits of your soil nor to make the vine in your fields barren, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
12
All the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delights, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
The triumph of the virtuous on the day of Yahweh
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You say harsh things about me, says Yahweh. You ask, ‘What have we said against you?’
14
You say, ‘It is useless to serve God; what is the good of keeping his commands or of walking mournfully before Yahweh Sabaoth?
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Now we have reached the point when we call the arrogant blessed; yes, they prosper, these evil-doers; they try God’s patience and yet go free.’
16
This is what those who fear Yahweh used to say to one another. But Yahweh took note and heard them: a book of remembrance was written in his presence recording those who fear him and take refuge in his name.
17
On the day which I am preparing, says Yahweh Sabaoth, they are going to be my own special possession. I will make allowances for them as a man makes allowances for the son who obeys him.
18
Then once again you will see the difference between an upright man and a wicked one, between the one who serves God and the one who does not serve him.
19
For the day is coming now, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and the evil-doers will be like stubble. The day that is coming is going to burn them up, says Yahweh Sabaoth, leaving them neither root nor stalk.
20
But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will shine out with healing in its rays; you will leap like calves going out to pasture.
21
You will trample on the wicked, who will be like ashes under your feet on the day I am preparing, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
Appendices
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Remember the Law of my servant Moses to whom at Horeb I prescribed laws and customs for the whole of Israel.
23
Know that I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before my day comes, that great and terrible day.
24
He shall turn the hearts of fathers towards their children and the hearts of children towards their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a curse.
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