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MALACHI
- For Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved,
- And hath married the daughter of a strange god.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
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