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MALACHI
- 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.
- For I am the Lord, I change not;
- Therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
- Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them.
- Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts.
- But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
- Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me.
- But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee?
- In tithes and offerings.
- Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me,
- Even this whole nation.
- Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,
- That there may be meat in mine house,
- And prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts,
- If I will not open you the windows of heaven,
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