The next file is: MALACHI    
1:1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
1:2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, In what hast
 thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD:
 yet I loved Jacob,
1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage
 waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
1:4 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.
1:5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be
 magnified from the border of Israel.
1:6 A son honoreth [his] father, and a servant his master: if
 then I [am] a father, where [is] my honor? and if I [am] a
 master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts to you, O
 priests, that despise my name. And ye say, In what have we
 despised thy name?
1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon my altar? and ye say, In what
 have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD
 [is] contemptible.
1:8 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 to thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept
 thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
1:9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious to
 us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your person?
 saith the LORD of hosts.
1:10 Who [is there] even among you that would shut the doors
 [for nought]? neither do ye kindle [fire] on my altar for
 naught. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts,
 neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
1:11 For from the rising of the sun even to the setting of the
 same, my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles; and in every
 place incense [shall be] offered to my name, and a pure
 offering: for my name [shall be] great among the heathen, saith
 the LORD of hosts.
1:12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the
 LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit of it, [even] his provision,
 is contemptible.
1:13 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 from your hand? saith the LORD.
1:14 But cursed [be] the deceiver, who hath in his flock a male,
 and voweth, and sacrificeth to the LORD a corrupt thing: for I
 [am] a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name [is]
 dreadful among the heathen.
2:1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment [is] for you.
2:2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart,
 to give glory to my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even
 send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yes, I
 have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart.
2:3 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.
2:4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment to you,
 that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
2:5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them
 to him [for] the fear with which he feared me, and was afraid
 before my name.
2:6 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
 turned many away from iniquity.
2:7 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.
2:8 But ye have 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.
2:9 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.
2:10 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?
2:11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is
 committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned
 the holiness of the LORD whom he loved, and hath married the
 daughter of a strange god.
2:12 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 to the LORD of hosts.
2:13 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.
2:14 Yet ye say, Why? 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.
2:15 And did he not make one? Yet had he the residue of the
 spirit. And why 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.
2:16 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.
2:17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, In
 what 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?
3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the
 way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, will suddenly come
 to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye
 delight in: behold, he will come, saith the LORD of hosts.
3:2 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
 fuller's soap.
3:3 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 to the LORD an offering in
 righteousness.
3:4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant
 to the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
3:5 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.
3:6 For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of
 Jacob are not consumed.
3:7 Even from the days of your fathers ye have gone away from my
 ordinances, and have not kept [them]. Return to me, and I will
 return to you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, In what
 shall we return?
3:8 Will a man rob God? yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, In
 what have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
3:9 Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even]
 this whole nation.
3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, that there
 may be food in my house, and prove me now with this, 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].
3:11 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.
3:12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a
 delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
3:13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet
 ye say, What have we spoken [so much] against thee?
3:14 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?
3:15 And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work
 wickedness are set up; even [they that] tempt God are
 delivered.
3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke 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.
3:17 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.
3:18 Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and
 the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth
 him not.
4:1 For behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and
 all the proud, 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.
4:2 But to 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.
4:3 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.
4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded
 to him in Horeb for all Israel, [with] the statutes and
 judgments.
4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming
 of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
4:6 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.