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| "title": "Malachi", | |
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| "A pronouncement: The word of the L<small>ORD</small> to Israel through Malachi.<br>", | |
| "I have shown you love, said the L<small>ORD</small>. But you ask, “How have You shown us love?” After all—declares the L<small>ORD</small>—Esau is Jacob’s brother; yet I have accepted Jacob", | |
| "and have rejected Esau. I have made his hills a desolation, his territory <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i>a home for beasts<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-a</sup> of the desert.", | |
| "If Edom thinks, “Though crushed, we can build the ruins again,” thus said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts: They may build, but I will tear down. And so they shall be known as the region of wickedness, the people damned forever of the L<small>ORD</small>.", | |
| "Your eyes shall behold it, and you shall declare, “Great is the L<small>ORD</small> beyond the borders of Israel!”<br>", | |
| "A son should honor his father, and a slave<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Septuagint and Targum add “should reverence”; cf. next part of verse.</i> his master. Now if I am a father, where is the honor due Me? And if I am a master, where is the reverence due Me?—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts to you, O priests who scorn My name. But you ask, “How have we scorned Your name?”", | |
| "You offer defiled food on My altar. But you ask, “How have we defiled You?”<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Septuagint “it.”</i> By saying, “The table of the L<small>ORD</small> can be treated with scorn.”", | |
| "When you present a blind animal for sacrifice—it doesn’t matter! When you present a lame or sick one—it doesn’t matter! Just offer it to your governor: Will he accept you? Will he show you favor?—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts.", | |
| "And now implore the favor of God! Will He be gracious to us? This is what you have done—will He accept any of you?<br>The L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts has said:", | |
| "If only you would lock My doors, and not kindle fire on My altar to no purpose! I take no pleasure in you—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts—and I will accept no offering from you.", | |
| "For from where the sun rises to where it sets, My name is honored among the nations, and everywhere incense and pure oblation are offered to My name; for My name is honored among the nations—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts.", | |
| "But you profane it when you say, “The table of the Lord is defiled and the meat,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> the food, can be treated with scorn.”", | |
| "You say, “Oh, what a bother!” And so you degrade<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> it—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts—and you bring the stolen, the lame, and the sick; and you offer such as an oblation. Will I accept it from you?—said the L<small>ORD</small>.", | |
| "A curse on the cheat who has an [unblemished] male in his flock, but for his vow sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord! For I am a great King—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts—and My name is revered among the nations." | |
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| "And now, O priests, this charge is for you:", | |
| "Unless you obey and unless you lay it to heart, and do honor to My name—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts—I will send a curse and turn your blessings into curses. (Indeed, I have turned them into curses, because you do not lay it to heart.)", | |
| "I will <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i>put your seed under a ban,<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-a</sup> and I will strew dung upon your faces, the dung of your festal sacrifices, and you shall be carried out to its [heap].", | |
| "Know, then, that I have sent this charge to you that My covenant with Levi may endure—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts.", | |
| "I had with him a covenant of life and well-being, which I gave to him, and of reverence, which he showed Me. For he stood in awe of My name.", | |
| "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See Hag. 2.10–13; cf. Lev. 10.8–11, Deut. 33.8, 10.</i>Proper rulings were in his mouth,<br>And nothing perverse was on his lips;<br>He served Me with complete loyalty<br>And held the many back from iniquity.", | |
| "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Or: For the lips of a priest are observed; / Knowledge and ruling are sought from his mouth.</i>For the lips of a priest guard knowledge,<br>And men seek rulings from his mouth;<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-c</sup><br>For he is a messenger of the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts.", | |
| "But you have turned away from that course: You have made the many stumble through your rulings;<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">By ruling falsely that an act was licit or an object ritually pure.</i> you have corrupted the covenant of the Levites—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts.", | |
| "And I, in turn, have made you despicable and vile in the eyes of all the people, because you disregard My ways and show partiality in your rulings.<br>", | |
| "Have we not all one Father? Did not one God create us? Why do we break faith with one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?", | |
| "Judah has broken faith; abhorrent things have been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned what is holy to the L<small>ORD</small>—what He desires—and espoused daughters of alien gods.", | |
| "May the L<small>ORD</small> leave to him who does this <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i>no descendants<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-a</sup> dwelling in the tents of Jacob and presenting offerings to the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts.", | |
| "And this you do <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “a second time”; Septuagint reads “which I detest”; cf. v. 16.</i>as well:<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-e</sup> You cover the altar of the L<small>ORD</small> with tears, weeping, and moaning, so that He refuses to regard the oblation any more and to accept <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “from your hand.”</i>what you offer.<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-f</sup>", | |
| "But you ask, “Because of what?” Because the L<small>ORD</small> is a witness between you and the wife of your youth with whom you have broken faith, though she is your partner and covenanted spouse.", | |
| "Did not the One make [all,] <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i>so that all remaining life-breath is His? And what does that One seek but godly folk? So be careful of your life-breath,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> and let no one break faith with the wife of his youth.", | |
| "For I detest divorce—said the L<small>ORD</small>, the God of Israel—<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i>and covering oneself with lawlessness as with a garment<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-a</sup>—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts. So be careful of your life-breath and do not act treacherously.<br>", | |
| "You have wearied the L<small>ORD</small> with your talk. But you ask, “By what have we wearied [Him]?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the L<small>ORD</small>, and in them He delights,” or else, “Where is the God of justice?”" | |
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| "Behold, I am sending My messenger to clear the way before Me, and the Lord whom you seek shall come to His Temple suddenly. As for the angel of the covenant<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Apparently the messenger of the previous sentence is regarded as Israel’s tutelary angel.</i> that you desire, he is already coming.", | |
| "But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can hold out when he appears? For he is like a smelter’s fire and like fuller’s lye.", | |
| "He shall act<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “sit.”</i> like a smelter and purger of silver; and he shall purify the descendants of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they shall present offerings in righteousness.", | |
| "Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the L<small>ORD</small> as in the days of yore and in the years of old.", | |
| "But [first] I will step forward to contend against you, and I will act as a relentless accuser against those who have no fear of Me: Who practice sorcery, who commit adultery, who swear falsely, who cheat laborers of their hire, and who subvert [the cause of] the widow, orphan, and stranger, said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts.<br>", | |
| "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Vv. 6–12 resume the thought of 1.2–5.</i>For I am the L<small>ORD</small>—I have not changed; and you are the children of Jacob—you have not ceased to be.", | |
| "From the very days of your fathers you have turned away from My laws and have not observed them. Turn back to Me, and I will turn back to you—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts. But you ask, “How shall we turn back?”", | |
| "Ought man to defraud<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Heb. qaba‘, a play on the name of Jacob (v. 6); cf. Gen. 27.36.</i> God? Yet you are defrauding Me. And you ask, “How have we been defrauding You?” In tithe and contribution.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., the contributions to the priests from the new grain, oil, and wine; see Num. 18.12.</i>", | |
| "You are suffering under a curse, yet you go on defrauding Me—the whole nation of you.", | |
| "Bring the full tithe into the storehouse,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., the public storehouse; see Neh. 13.10–13.</i> and let there be food in My House, and thus put Me to the test—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts. I will surely open the floodgates of the sky for you and pour down blessings on you;", | |
| "and I will banish the locusts<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “devourer.”</i> from you, so that they will not destroy the yield of your soil; and your vines in the field shall no longer miscarry—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts.", | |
| "And all the nations shall account you happy, for you shall be the most desired of lands—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts.<br>", | |
| "You have spoken hard words against Me—said the L<small>ORD</small>. But you ask, “What have we been saying among ourselves against You?”", | |
| "You have said, “It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His charge and walking in abject awe of the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts?", | |
| "And so, we account the arrogant happy: they have indeed done evil and endured; they have indeed dared God and escaped.”", | |
| "In this vein have those who revere the L<small>ORD</small> been talking to one another. The L<small>ORD</small> has heard and noted it, and a scroll of remembrance has been written at His behest concerning those who revere the L<small>ORD</small> and esteem His name.", | |
| "And on the day that I am preparing, said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts, they shall be My treasured possession; I will be tender toward them as a man is tender toward a son who ministers to him.", | |
| "And you shall come to see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him who has served God and him who has not served Him.", | |
| "For lo! That day is at hand, burning like an oven. All the arrogant and all the doers of evil shall be straw, and the day that is coming—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts—shall burn them to ashes and leave of them neither stock nor boughs.", | |
| "But for you who revere My name a sun of victory shall rise <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">h</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “with healing in the folds of its garments”; others “with healing in its wings.”</i>to bring healing.<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-h</sup> You shall go forth and stamp like stall-fed calves,", | |
| "and you shall trample the wicked to a pulp, for they shall be dust beneath your feet on the day that I am preparing—said the L<small>ORD</small> of Hosts.", | |
| "Be mindful of the Teaching of My servant Moses, whom I charged at Horeb with laws and rules for all Israel.", | |
| "Lo, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before the coming of the awesome, fearful day of the L<small>ORD</small>.", | |
| "He shall reconcile parents with children and children with their parents, so that, when I come, I do not strike the whole land with utter destruction.<br><br><small>Lo, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before the coming of the awesome, fearful day of the L<small>ORD</small>.</small>" | |
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