Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
“Behold
, I will
send
My messenger, who
will
prepare
the
way before Me .
Then
the
Lord
whom
you
seek
will
suddenly come to
His temple —
the Messenger of the covenant, in
whom you
delight—see
, He is coming, ”
says
the
LORD
of Hosts.
Lo
, I am
sending
My messenger, And
he
hath
prepared
a
way before Me ,
And
suddenly come in
unto
his temple Doth
the Lord
whom
ye
are
seeking,
Even
the
messenger of the covenant, Whom ye
are
desiring
, Lo,
he is coming, said
Jehovah
of Hosts.
But
who can
endure
the day of His coming? And who can
stand
when
He
appears
? For He will
be
like
a
refiner’s
fire ,
like
a launderer’s
soap.
And
who is
bearing
the day of his coming? And who is
standing
in
his
appearing
? For he `is'
as
fire of
a refiner,
And
as
soap of
a
fuller
.
And He will
sit
as
a refiner and purifier of silver ;
He will
purify
the sons of Levi and refine
them like
gold and silver .
Then
they will
present
offerings
to the
LORD
in righteousness.
And he hath
sat,
a refiner and purifier of silver ,
And
he hath
purified
the sons of Levi ,
And hath
refined
them as
gold and as
silver ,
And
they have
been
to Jehovah
bringing
nigh
a
present
in righteousness.
Then
the offerings
of Judah and Jerusalem will
please
the
LORD
, as in days of old and years gone
by
.
And
sweet
to
Jehovah
hath
been
the present
of Judah and Jerusalem, As in days of old ,
and as
in
former
years.
“Then
I will
draw
near to you for judgment .
And I will
be
a swift
witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers
, against oppressors of the widowed
and fatherless, and against
those who
defraud
laborers
of
their
wages
and deny
justice
to
the
foreigner
but
do
not
fear Me, ”
says
the
LORD
of Hosts.
And
I have
drawn
near to you for judgment ,
And I have
been
a witness ,
Making
haste
against sorcerers ,
And against
adulterers ,
And against
swearers
to
a
falsehood
, And
against oppressors of the hire
of
an
hireling,
Of
a
widow,
and of
a
fatherless one
, And those turning
aside
a
sojourner,
And who
fear Me not
, said
Jehovah
of Hosts.
“Because
I ,
the
LORD
, do
not change
, you
descendants
of Jacob have not been destroyed
.
For
I `am'
Jehovah
, I
have
not changed
, And
ye,
the
sons
of Jacob ,
Ye
have not been consumed
.
Yet
from the days of your fathers ,
you
have turned away
from My statutes and have not kept
them
. Return
to
Me, and I will
return
to you, ”
says
the
LORD
of Hosts. “But
you
ask
, ‘How
can
we return
? ’
Even
from the days of your fathers Ye
have turned aside
from My statutes ,
And ye
have not taken
heed
. Turn
back
unto
Me, and I turn
back
to you, Said
Jehovah
of Hosts. And
ye
have
said
, `In
what
do
we turn
back
? '
Will
a
man rob
God? Yet
you
are robbing
Me !
But
you
ask
, ‘How
do
we rob
You
? ’
In
tithes
and offerings.
Doth
man deceive
God? but
ye
are deceiving
Me, And
ye
have
said:
`In
what
have
we deceived
Thee
? '
The
tithe
and the
heave-offering!
You
are
cursed
with a curse ,
yet
you—the
whole
nation—
are still
robbing
Me.
With a curse ye
are cursed!
And
Me ye
are
deceiving
--
this
nation
--
all
of
it
.
Bring the full
tithe into
the storehouse
, so
that
there may
be
food in My house .
Test
Me in
this, ”
says
the
LORD
of Hosts .
“See
if
I
will
not open the windows of heaven and
pour
out
for
you blessing without
measure
.
Bring in
all
the tithe unto
the treasure-house
, And
there is
food in My house ;
When
ye
have
tried
Me ,
now,
with
this, Said
Jehovah
of Hosts ,
Do
not I
open to
you
the windows of heaven ?
Yea,
I
have
emptied
on
you a
blessing till
there
is
no
space
.
I will
rebuke
the
devourer
for you, so
that
it
will
not destroy the fruits
of your
land
, and
the vine in your
field will
not
fail
to
produce
fruit
, ”
says
the
LORD
of Hosts.
And
I have
pushed
for you against
the
consumer
, And
He
doth
not destroy to
you
the fruit
of the
ground
, Nor
miscarry
to
you
doth
the vine in the
field, Said
Jehovah
of Hosts.
“Then
all the nations will
call
you
blessed
, for you
will
be
a land of
delight
, ”
says
the
LORD
of Hosts.
And
declared
you
happy
have
all the nations, For ye
are
a delightful
land, said
Jehovah
of Hosts.
“Your
words
against Me have been harsh
, ”
says
the
LORD.
“Yet
you
ask
, ‘
What have we spoken against You
? ’
Hard
against Me have been your
words
, Said
Jehovah
, and
ye
have
said:
`
What have we spoken against Thee
? '
You
have said, ‘It
is
futile
to serve God .
What have
we gained
by
keeping
His requirements
and walking
mournfully
before
the
LORD
of Hosts?
Ye
have said, `A
vain
thing
to serve God !
And
what gain
when
we kept
His charge?
And when
we
have
gone
in
black,
Because
of Jehovah
of
Hosts?
So
now we call
the arrogant
blessed.
Not
only
do
evildoers
prosper
, they even
test
God and escape. ’”
And
now ,
we are
declaring
the proud
happy
, Yea,
built
up
have
been
those
doing
wickedness,
Yea
they have
tempted
God ,
and escape. '
At
that
time
those who
feared
the
LORD
spoke
with
one another, and the
LORD
listened
and heard
them.
So
a scroll
of remembrance
was
written
before Him regarding
those who
feared
the
LORD
and honored
His name.
Then
have
those fearing
Jehovah
spoken
one to
another, And Jehovah
doth
attend
and hear,
And
written
is
a book
of memorial
before Him Of
those fearing
Jehovah,
And of
those
esteeming
His name.
“
They will
be
Mine
, ”
says
the
LORD
of Hosts, “on
the day when
I prepare
My
treasured
possession.
And I will
spare
them as a
man
spares
his own
son who serves
him.
And
they have
been
to
Me
, said
Jehovah
of Hosts, In
the day that
I am
appointing
--
a
peculiar
treasure,
And I have
had
pity
on
them ,
As one
hath
pity
on
his son who is
serving
him.
So
you
will
again
distinguish
between the righteous and the wicked, between those
who
serve
God and those
who do
not. ”
And
ye
have
turned
back
and
considered,
Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the
servant
of
God and him
who is
not His
servant
.
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