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| [1]Beholde, I wyll sende my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me, and the lord whom ye seeke, shal speedyly come to his temple, and the messenger of the couenaunt whom ye desire, beholde he commeth, saith the Lorde of hoastes |
[1]BEHOLD, I will send my messenger and he shall prepare the way before me; and he for whom you are waiting shall suddenly come to the temple of the LORD, even the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight; behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts. |
| [2]But who may abyde the day of his comming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is lyke a purging fire, and lyke fullers sope |
[2]But who can endure the day of his coming? And who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap; |
| [3]And he shall sit downe to trye and fine the siluer, and he shal purge the children of Leui, and purifie them as golde and siluer: and they shal bring vnto the lorde offeringes in righteousnesse |
[3]For he shall return to refine and purify the people like silver; and he shall cleanse the sons of Levi and purge them like gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness. |
| [4]Then shall the offeringes of Iuda and Hierusalem be acceptable vnto the Lorde, as in olde tyme, and as in the yeres afore |
[4]Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to the LORD, as in the days of old and as in former years. |
| [5]And I wyl come neare to you in iudgement, and I wyll be a swyft witnesse against the soothsayers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that wrongfully keepe backe the hirelynges wages, and vexe the widowe and the fatherlesse, and oppresse the straunger, and feare not me, saith the Lorde of hoastes |
[5]And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely and against those who defraud the laborer of his wages, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow; and those who turn aside him who turns to me, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts. |
| [6]For I am the Lorde, I chaunge not: and you sonnes of Iacob are not consumed |
[6]For I am the LORD, I change not; but you sons of Jacob have not departed from your iniquities |
| [7]From the dayes of your fathers ye are gone away from myne ordinaunces, and haue not kept [them:] turne you to me, and I wyll turne to you, saith the Lorde of hoastes. And ye saide, Wherein shall we returne |
[7]Even from the days of your fathers you have gone astray from my ordinances and have not obeyed them. Return to me and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, How shall we return? |
| [8]Wyll a man spoyle his Gods? yet ye haue spoyled me: and ye say, Wherein haue we spoyled thee? In tythes and offeringes |
[8]Will a man defraud God as you have defrauded me? But you say, How have we defrauded thee? In tithes and offerings. |
| [9]Ye are cursed with a curse, & me haue ye spoyled, euen this whole nation |
[9]You are cursed with curses, and yet you defraud me. |
| [10]Bryng euery tythe into the store house, that there may be meate in myne house, and prooue me withal, saith the Lorde of hoastes: if I wyl not open the windowes of heauen vnto you, and poure you out a blessing without measure |
[10]Bring all the tithes into my storehouse that there may be food in my house, and prove me now in this, says the LORD of hosts, and I will open the windows of heaven for you and pour out blessings for you until you shall say, It is enough. |
| [11]And I wyl reprooue the deuourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruite of the grounde, neither shall your vine be barren in the fielde, saith the Lorde of hoastes |
[11]And I will rebuke the devourer, so that it shall not destroy the fruits of the land; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before the time in the field, says the LORD of hosts. |
| [12]And al nations shal call you blessed: because you shalbe a pleasaunt lande, saith the Lorde of hoastes |
[12]And all nations shall praise you, when you shall be a land of my delight, says the LORD of hosts |
| [13]Your wordes haue ben stout against me saith the lorde: and you saide, Wherein haue we spoken against thee |
[13]Your words have been grievous against me, says the LORD. And you say, What have we spoken against thee? |
| [14]Ye haue saide: [it is but] vayne to serue God, and what profite [is it] that we haue kept his commaundement, & that we haue walked humbly before the face of the Lorde of hoastes |
[14]You have said, We have served God in vain; what have we profited that we have kept his ordinances and that we have walked meekly before the LORD of hosts? |
| [15]And nowe we call the proude happie: yea the workers of wickednesse are set vp, and also they that tempt God, yea they are deliuered |
[15]And henceforth we call the wicked blessed; yea, they that work wickedness are well established; they tempt God, and yet they are delivered. |
| [16]Then they that feared God, saide euery one to his neighbour: and the Lorde considered and hearde, and there was written a booke of remebraunce before him for them that feared the Lorde, and for them that thinke vpon his name |
[16]These were the things which those who revered the LORD spoke often one to another; and the LORD gave ear and heard it, and he wrote it in a book of remembrance before him for those who revere him and for those who praise his name. |
| [17]And they shalbe to me, saith the Lorde of hoastes, in that day wherein I shall do [iudgement,] a stocke: and I wyl spare them as a man spareth his owne sonne which serueth him |
[17]And they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, on that day when I will assemble the people; and I will have pity on them as a man pities his own son who serves him. |
| [18]Then shall ye returne, and discerne betweene the iust and the wicked, betweene him that serueth God, and him that serueth him not |
[18]Then shall you return and see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between those who served God and those who served him not |