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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAL.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAL.3.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAL.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner&#8217;s fire or a launderer&#8217;s soap. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAL.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAL.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, as in days gone by, as in former years.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAL.3.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAL.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Breaking Covenant by Withholding Tithes</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAL.3.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAL.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAL.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAL.3.7"><span class="content">&#8220;But you ask, &#8216;How are we to return?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAL.3.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAL.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAL.3.8"><span class="content">&#8220;But you ask, &#8216;How are we robbing you?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAL.3.8"><span class="content">&#8220;In tithes and offerings. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAL.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You are under a curse&#8212;your whole nation&#8212;because you are robbing me. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAL.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, &#8220;and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAL.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAL.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Speaks Arrogantly Against God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAL.3.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAL.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;You have spoken arrogantly against me,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAL.3.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Yet you ask, &#8216;What have we said against you?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAL.3.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAL.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;You have said, &#8216;It is futile to serve God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAL.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Faithful Remnant</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAL.3.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAL.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then those who feared the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> talked with each other, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and honored his name.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAL.3.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAL.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;On the day when I act,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, &#8220;they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAL.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment and Covenant Renewal</span></div><div class="p"><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 4:1-6 is numbered 3:19-24.</span><span class="ft"> </span></span></span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAL.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty. &#8220;Not a root or a branch will be left to them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAL.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAL.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAL.4.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAL.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAL.4.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAL.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> comes. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAL.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">36</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 36</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 36:1-12 is numbered 36:2-13.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.36.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I have a message from God in my heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.36.1"><span class="content">concerning the sinfulness of the wicked:</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">36:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">A message from God: The transgression of the wicked / resides in their hearts.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.36.1"><span class="content">There is no fear of God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.36.1"><span class="content">before their eyes.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.36.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.36.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.36.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">In their own eyes they flatter themselves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.36.2"><span class="content">too much to detect or hate their sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.36.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.36.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.36.3"><span class="content">they fail to act wisely or do good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.36.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.36.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Even on their beds they plot evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.36.4"><span class="content">they commit themselves to a sinful course</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.36.4"><span class="content">and do not reject what is wrong.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.36.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.36.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.36.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Your love, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, reaches to the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.36.5"><span class="content">your faithfulness to the skies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.36.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.36.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.36.6"><span class="content">your justice like the great deep.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.36.6"><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, preserve both people and animals.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.36.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.36.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.36.7"><span class="content">People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.36.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.36.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They feast on the abundance of your house;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.36.8"><span class="content">you give them drink from your river of delights.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.36.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.36.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For with you is the fountain of life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.36.9"><span class="content">in your light we see light.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.36.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.36.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.36.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Continue your love to those who know you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.36.10"><span class="content">your righteousness to the upright in heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.36.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.36.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">May the foot of the proud not come against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.36.11"><span class="content">nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.36.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.36.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">See how the evildoers lie fallen&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.36.12"><span class="content">thrown down, not able to rise!</span></span></div>
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