Mal 3 | ABEn | STEP | Behold, I send out my messenger who shall prepare the way before my face. And [ 5 shall suddenly 6 come 7 into 8 his temple 1 the lord 2 whom 3 you 4 seek], even the messenger of the covenant, whom you want. Behold, he comes, says the lord almighty.

Malachi 3

CHAPTER 3 The Messenger of the Covenant

1 Behold, I send out my messenger who shall prepare the way before my face. And [⁵shall suddenly ⁶come ⁷into ⁸his temple ¹the lord ²whom ³you ⁴seek], even the messenger of the covenant, whom you want. Behold, he comes, says the lord almighty. 2 And who will endure the day of his entrance? Or who shall stand at his apparition? For he enters as fire of a foundry furnace, and as lye of ones washing. 3 And he shall sit as one casting in a furnace, and one cleansing as it were silver. And he shall cleanse the sons of Levi, and he shall pour them as the gold and as the silver; and they will be to the lord ones bringing sacrifices in righteousness. 4 And [⁵shall please ⁶the ⁷ lord, ¹the sacrifice ²of Judah ³and ⁴Jerusalem], as in the days of the eon; and as the years before. 5 And I will come forward to you in judgment; and I will be [²witness ¹a quick] against the administers of potions, and against the adulterers, and against the ones swearing by an oath in my name for a lie, and against the ones depriving a wage of a hireling, and tyrannizing over the widow, and the ones smiting orphans, and the ones turning aside a right judgment of a foreigner, even they are the ones not fearing me, says the lord almighty. 6 For I am the lord your God; I change not.

Israel Keeps the Tenth Parts

7 But you sons of Jacob are not kept at a distance from the sins of your fathers; you turned aside from my laws, and guarded not. Return to me! and I shall be turned towards you, says the lord almighty. But you said, In what way should we turn? 8 Shall [²stomp on ¹a man] God, no. For you stomp on me. And you said, [³in ⁴what ¹We stomped on ²you]? In that the tenth parts, and the first-fruits [²with ³you ¹are]. 9 And looking away, you look away, and me you stomp on. 10 The year is completed, and you carried in all the resources into the storehouses, and there will be the ravaging in your houses. Restore indeed in this, says the lord almighty! And see if I should not open to you the torrents of the heaven, and pour out to you my blessing until it is enough. 11 And I will draw apart to you for food, and in no way will I utterly destroy the fruit of the land; and in no way should it be weakened upon your grapevine in the field, says the lord almighty. 12 And [⁴shall declare you happy ¹all ²the ³nations]. For you will be [²land ¹a wanted], says the lord almighty. 13 You weighed down against me by your words, says the lord. And you said, [⁴in ⁵what ¹We spoke ill ²against ³you]? 14 You said, [⁴is vain ¹The one ²serving ³God]. and, What more is it that we kept his injunctions, and that we go as supplicants before the face of the lord almighty? 15 And now we declare [²blessed ¹aliens]; and [⁵are built up ¹all ²the ones ³doing ⁴lawless deeds]; and they opposed God, and were preserved. 16 [⁶these things ⁵spoke ¹The ones ²fearing ³the ⁴ lord] each to his neighbor. And the lord heeded, and hearkened, and wrote a scroll of memorial before him to the ones fearing the lord, and venerating his name. 17 And they will be to me, says the lord almighty, in the day which I prepare for a procurement. And I will select them in which manner [²selects ¹a man] his son, the one serving to him. 18 Then shall you be turned, and you shall see between the just one and the wrongdoer; and between the one serving God and the one not serving to him.