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The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi .

And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

And I hated Esau , and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel .

And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:

Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel , with the statutes and judgments.

And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi , saith the Lord of hosts.

Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ,

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.

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.

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:

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.