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Chapter 3 Behold, I will send my
messenger, and he shall prepare the way

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before me.

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And the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly
come to his temple, even the messenger of

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the covenant, whom ye delight in.

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Behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of
hosts.

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But who may abide the day of his coming?

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And who shall stand when he appeareth?

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For he is like a refiner's fire,
and like fuller's soap.

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And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier
of silver.

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And he shall purify the sons of Levi,
and purge them as gold and silver,

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that they may offer unto the Lord an
offering in righteousness.

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Then shall the offering of Judah and
Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord,

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as in the days of old, and as in former
years.

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And I will come near to you to judgment.

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And I will be a swift witness against the
sorcerers, and against the adulterers,

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and against false swearers, and against
those that oppress the hireling in his

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wages, the widow and the fatherless,
and that turn aside the stranger from his

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right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of
hosts.

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For I am the Lord, I change not.

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Therefore ye sons of Jacob are not
consumed.

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Even from the days of your fathers ye are
gone away from mine ordinances,

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and have not kept them.

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Return unto me, and I will return unto
you, saith the Lord of hosts.

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But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

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Will a man rob God?

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Yet ye have robbed me.

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But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee?

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In tithes and offerings.

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Ye are cursed with a curse.

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For ye have robbed me, even this whole
nation.

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Bring ye all the tithes into the
storehouse, that there may be meat in mine

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house, and prove me now herewith,
saith the Lord of hosts.

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If I will not open you the windows of
heaven, and pour you out a blessing,

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that there shall not be room enough to
receive it.

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And I will rebuke the devourer for your
sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits

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of your ground, neither shall your vine
cast her fruit before the time in the

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field, saith the Lord of hosts.

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And all nations shall call you blessed,
for ye shall be a delightsome land,

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saith the Lord of hosts.

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Your words have been stout against me,
saith the Lord.

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Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much
against thee?

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Ye have said, It is vain to serve God.

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And what profit is it that we have kept
his ordinance, and that we have walked

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mournfully before the Lord of hosts?

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And now we call the proud happy.

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Yea, they that work wickedness are set up.

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Yea, they that tempt God are even
delivered.

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Then they that feared the Lord spake often
one to another.

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And the Lord hearkened and heard it.

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And a book of remembrance was written
before him for them that feared the Lord,

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and that thought upon his name.

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And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of
hosts, in that day when I make up my

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jewels, and I will spare them,
as a man spareth his own son that serveth

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him.

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Then shall ye return and discern between
the righteous and the wicked, between him

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that serveth God, and him that serveth him
not.