King James 3 (Jay P. Green, Sr. - 2006)Malachi - chapter 3
1 Behold, I am sending My messenger, and He will clear the way before Me. And the Lord whom you are seeking shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Angel of the Covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He comes, says Jehovah of Hosts.
2 But who can endure the day of His coming? And who will be standing at His appearing? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fuller’s soap.
3 And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and He shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them like gold and like silver, that they may be to Jehovah, to bring near an offering in righteousness to Jehovah.
4 And the offering of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to Jehovah, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
5 And I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against those divining, and against ones doing adultery, and against those swearing to a lie; and against those who extort from the hired laborer’s pay; and turning away the widow, and the fatherless, and the sojourner, and the one not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.
6 For I, Jehovah, change not. Because of this, you sons of Jacob do not come to an end.
7 From the days of your fathers, you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Turn back to Me, and I will turn back to you, says Jehovah of Hosts. But you say, In what way shall we turn back?
8 Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me. But you say, In what have we robbed You? In the tithe and the offering!
9 You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the nation, all of it.
10 Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. And test Me now in this, says Jehovah of Hosts, whether I will not open the windows of the heavens for you and pour out a blessing until there is no sufficiency.
11 And I will rebuke for you the one devouring, and he shall not cause to decay for you the fruit of your ground against you; and not will your vine miscarry for you in the field, says Jehovah of Hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed, for you shall be a land of delight, says Jehovah of Hosts.
13 Your words have been strong against Me, says Jehovah. But you say, What have we spoken against you?
14 You have said, It is vanity to serve God. And, What unjust profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked as mourners before Jehovah of Hosts?
15 And now we are calling the arrogant blessed. Not only are the doers of wickedness built up, they also test God, and escape.
16 Then those fearing Jehovah spoke together, each man to his neighbor. And Jehovah gave attention and heard. And a Book of Remembrance was written before Him for those fearing Jehovah, and for those esteeming His name.
17 And they shall be Mine, says Jehovah of Hosts, for the day that I will make up My treasure. And I will pity them as a man has pity on his son who serves him.
18 Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous one and the wicked one, between him who serves God and him who does not serve Him.
