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MALACHI
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- Therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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' sope:
- 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.
- Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord,
- As in the days of old, and as in former years.
- And I will come near to you to judgment;
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