Malachi 3:6-4

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Robbing God

⁶ “For ^(A)I the Lord do not change; ^(B)therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. ^7 (C)From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. ^(D)Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. ^(E)But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ ⁸ Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. ^(F)But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ ^(G)In your tithes and contributions. ^9 (H)You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. ^10 (I)Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby ^(J)put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open ^(K)the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. ¹¹ I will rebuke ^(L)the devourer^[a] for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts. ¹² Then ^(M)all nations will call you blessed, for you will be ^(N)a land of delight, says the Lord of hosts.

^13 (O)“Your words have been hard against me, says the Lord. ^(P)But you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’ ¹⁴ You have said, ^(Q)‘It is vain to serve God. ^(R)What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts? ¹⁵ And now we call ^(S)the arrogant blessed. ^(T)Evildoers not only prosper but ^(U)they put God to the test and they escape.’”

The Book of Remembrance

¹⁶ Then those who feared the Lord ^(V)spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and ^(W)a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name. ¹⁷ “They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, ^(X)in the day when I make up ^(Y)my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. ¹⁸ Then once more you shall ^(Z)see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.

The Great Day of the Lord

4 ^[b] “For behold, ^(AA)the day is coming, ^(AB)burning like an oven, when ^(AC)all the arrogant and ^(AD)all evildoers ^(AE)will be stubble. The day that is coming ^(AF)shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. ² But for you ^(AG)who fear my name, ^(AH)the sun ^(AI)of righteousness shall rise ^(AJ)with healing in its wings. You shall go out ^(AK)leaping like calves from the stall. ³ And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, ^(AL)on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.

^4 (AM)“Remember ^(AN)the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules^[c] that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

^5 (AO)“Behold, I will send you ^(AP)Elijah the prophet ^(AQ)before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. ⁶ And he will ^(AR)turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and ^(AS)strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”^[d]