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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 4:1-6 is numbered 3:19-24.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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">55</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Invitation to the Thirsty</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come, all you who are thirsty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">come to the waters;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">and you who have no money,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">come, buy and eat!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">Come, buy wine and milk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">without money and without cost.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Why spend money on what is not bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">and your labor on what does not satisfy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">and you will delight in the richest of fare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Give ear and come to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">listen, that you may live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">I will make an everlasting covenant with you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">my faithful love promised to David.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="content">a ruler and commander of the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Surely you will summon nations you know not,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">and nations you do not know will come running to you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">the Holy One of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">for he has endowed you with splendor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> while he may be found;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="content">call on him while he is near.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Let the wicked forsake their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">and the unrighteous their thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">Let them turn to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he will have mercy on them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">and to our God, for he will freely pardon.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;For my thoughts are not your thoughts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">neither are your ways my ways,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;As the heavens are higher than the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">so are my ways higher than your ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">and my thoughts than your thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">As the rain and the snow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">come down from heaven,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">and do not return to it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">without watering the earth</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">and making it bud and flourish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">so is my word that goes out from my mouth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">It will not return to me empty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">but will accomplish what I desire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You will go out in joy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">and be led forth in peace;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">the mountains and hills</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">will burst into song before you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">and all the trees of the field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">will clap their hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">This will be for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s renown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">for an everlasting sign,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">that will endure forever.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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