Jubilee2000 - Malachi - 3

3:1  Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, and the angel of the covenant, whom ye desire: behold, he comes, said the LORD of the hosts.

3:2  But who may abide the time of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he [shall be] like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap:

3:3  And he shall sit to refine and to purify the silver: for he shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

3:4  Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasant unto the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.

3:5  And I will come near unto you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and do not fear me, said the LORD of the hosts.

3:6  For I [am] the LORD, I have not changed; therefore, ye sons of Jacob have not been consumed.

3:7  Even from the days of your fathers, ye had departed from my ordinances and had never kept [them]. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, said the LORD of the hosts. But ye said, In what shall we return?

3:8  Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, In what have we robbed thee? In the tithes and the offerings.

3:9  Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye, even this whole nation, have robbed me.

3:10  Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, and there shall be food in my house, and prove me now in this, said the LORD of the hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].

3:11  And I will reprehend the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of the ground; neither shall the vine in the field abort, said the LORD of the hosts.

3:12  And all the Gentiles shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, said the LORD of the hosts.

3:13  Your words have prevailed against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

3:14  Ye have said, It [is] vain to serve God, and what profit [is it] that we have kept his law and that we walk mournfully before the LORD of the hosts?

3:15  We say, therefore, now, that blessed are the proud and even that those that work wickedness are prospered; [those that] tempted God have escaped.

3:16  Then those that feared the LORD spoke one to another, and the LORD hearkened and heard [it], and a book of remembrance was written before him for those that feared the LORD and for those that think in his name.

3:17  And they shall be mine, said the LORD of the hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.

3:18  Therefore become ye converted, and ye shall make a difference between the just and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that did not serve him.: