Malachi:3

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* Behold I send my angel , and he shall prepare the way before my face . And presently the Lord , whom you seek , and the angel of the testament , whom you desire , shall come to his temple . Behold he cometh , saith the Lord of hosts . * And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming ? and who shall stand to see him ? for he is like a refining fire , and like the fuller 's herb : * And he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver , and he shall purify the sons of Levi , and shall refine them as gold , and as silver , and they shall offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice . * And the sacrifice of Juda and of Jerusalem shall please the Lord , as in the days of old , and in the ancient years . * And I will come to you in judgment , and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers , and adulterers , and false swearers , and them that oppress the hireling in his wages ; the widows , and the fatherless : and oppress the stranger , and have not feared me , saith the Lord of hosts . * For I am the Lord , and I change not : and you the sons of Jacob are not consumed . * For from the days of your fathers you have departed from my ordinances , and have not kept them : Return to me , and I will return to you , saith the Lord of hosts . And you have said : Wherein shall we return ? * Shall a man afflict God ? for you afflict me . And you have said : Wherein do we afflict thee ? in tithes and in firstfruits . * And you are cursed with want , and you afflict me , even the whole nation of you . * Bring all the tithes into the storehouse , that there may be meat in my house , and try me in this , saith the Lord : if I open not unto you the flood-gates of heaven , and pour you out a blessing even to abundance . * And I will rebuke for your sakes the devourer , and he shall not spoil the fruit of your land : neither shall the vine in the field be barren , saith the Lord of hosts . * And all nations shall call you blessed : for you shall be a delightful land , saith the Lord of hosts . * Your words have been unsufferable to me , saith the Lord . * And you have said : What have we spoken against thee ? You have said : He laboureth in vain that serveth God , and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances , and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts ? * Wherefore now we call the proud people happy , for they that work wickedness are built up , and they have tempted God and are preserved . * Then they that feared the Lord spoke every one with his neighbour : and the Lord gave ear , and heard it : and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that fear the Lord , and think on his name . * And they shall be my special possession , saith the Lord of hosts , in the day that I do judgment : and I will spare them , as a man spareth his son that serveth him . * And you shall return , and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked : and between him that serveth God , and him that serveth him not .

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