king james study
MAL 01:01 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
MAL 01:02 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein
hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD:
yet I loved Jacob,
MAL 01:03 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage
waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
MAL 01:04 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will
return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts,
They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them,
The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath
indignation for ever.
MAL 01:05 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will
be magnified from the border of Israel.
MAL 01:06 A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master:
if then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honour? and if I [be] a
master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O
priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised
thy name?
MAL 01:07 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say,
Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD
[is] contemptible.
MAL 01:08 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [is it] not
evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, [is it] not evil? offer it
now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy
person? saith the LORD of hosts.
MAL 01:09 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious
unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons?
saith the LORD of hosts.
MAL 01:10 Who [is there] even among you that would shut the doors
[for nought]? neither do ye kindle [fire] on mine altar for nought.
I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I
accept an offering at your hand.
MAL 01:11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down
of the same my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles; and in
every place incense [shall be] offered unto my name, and a pure
offering: for my name [shall be] great among the heathen, saith the
LORD of hosts.
MAL 01:12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the
LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat, [is]
contemptible.
MAL 01:13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness [is it]! and ye
have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought [that
which was] torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an
offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
MAL 01:14 But cursed [be] the deceiver, which hath in his flock a
male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for
I [am] a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name [is]
dreadful among the heathen.
MAL 02:01 And now, O ye priests, this commandment [is] for you.
MAL 02:02 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to
heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will
even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I
have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart.
MAL 02:03 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon
your faces, [even] the dung of your solemn feasts; and [one] shall
take you away with it.
MAL 02:04 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto
you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
MAL 02:05 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave
them to him [for] the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid
before my name.
MAL 02:06 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not
found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did
turn many away from iniquity.
MAL 02:07 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they
should seek the law at his mouth: for he [is] the messenger of the
LORD of hosts.
MAL 02:08 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many
to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith
the LORD of hosts.
MAL 02:09 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base
before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but
have been partial in the law.
MAL 02:10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?
why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by
profaning the covenant of our fathers?
MAL 02:11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is
committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the
holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter
of a strange god.
MAL 02:12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master
and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that
offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.
MAL 02:13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the
LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he
regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth [it] with good
will at your hand.
MAL 02:14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness
between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt
treacherously: yet [is] she thy companion, and the wife of thy
covenant.
MAL 02:15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the
spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed.
Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously
against the wife of his youth.
MAL 02:16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth
putting away: for [one] covereth violence with his garment, saith
the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal
not treacherously.
MAL 02:17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say,
Wherein have we wearied [him]? When ye say, Every one that doeth
evil [is] good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them;
or, Where [is] the God of judgment?
MAL 03:01 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare
the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come
to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight
in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
MAL 03:02 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall
stand when he appeareth? for he [is] like a refiner's fire, and like
fullers' soap:
MAL 03:03 And he shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver:
and 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.
MAL 03:04 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be
pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former
years.
MAL 03:05 And I will come near to you to 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 fear not me, saith the LORD of
hosts.
MAL 03:06 For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of
Jacob are not consumed.
MAL 03:07 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from
mine ordinances, and have not kept [them]. Return unto me, and I
will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein
shall we return?
MAL 03:08 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say,
Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
MAL 03:09 Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me,
[even] this whole nation.
MAL 03:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there
may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD
of 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].
MAL 03:11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he
shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine
cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of
hosts.
MAL 03:12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a
delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
MAL 03:13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD.
Yet ye say, What have we spoken [so much] against thee?
MAL 03:14 Ye have said, It [is] vain to serve God: and what profit
[is it] that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked
mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
MAL 03:15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work
wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even
delivered.
MAL 03:16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to
another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard [it], and a book of
remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD,
and that thought upon his name.
MAL 03:17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that
day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man
spareth his own son that serveth him.
MAL 03:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous
and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth
him not.
MAL 04:01 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;
and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble:
and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts,
that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
MAL 04:02 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of
righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go
forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
MAL 04:03 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be
ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do
[this], saith the LORD of hosts.
MAL 04:04 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I
commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, [with] the statutes and
judgments.
MAL 04:05 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the
coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
MAL 04:06 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the
children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I
come and smite the earth with a curse.