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THE BOOK OF MALACHI |
| "I have loved you," says
the LORD. But you say, "How have You loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's
brother?" declares the LORD. "Yet I have loved Jacob; but I have hated
Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance
for the jackals of the wilderness." -- 1:2-3
For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, My name will be great among the nations. -- 1:11 "Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth. For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with wrong," says the LORD of hosts. "So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously." -- 2:15-16 "Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming," says the LORD of hosts. "But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap." -- 3:1-2 "For I, the LORD, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you," says the LORD of hosts. -- 3:6-7 "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this," says the LORD of hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows." -- 3:10 "For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze," says the LORD of hosts, "so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says the LORD of hosts. -- 4:1-3 Behold, I am going to send
you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day
of the LORD. He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children
and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come
and smite the land with a curse. -- 4:5-6
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