Malachi 3

1“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me! The Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple. Behold, the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, is coming!” says Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Gen 48:15 · Ex 23:20 · Ps 110:1 · Isa 7:14 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 40:3 · +27 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

2“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;Cross-references: Ps 2:7 · Isa 1:18 · Isa 4:4 · Jer 2:22 · Ezek 22:14 · Amos 5:18 · +31 more

3and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.Cross-references: Ps 4:5 · Ps 50:14 · Ps 50:23 · Ps 66:10 · Ps 69:30 · Ps 107:21 · +35 more

4Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh as in the days of old and as in ancient years.Cross-references: 1Chr 15:26 · 1Chr 16:1 · 1Chr 21:26 · 1Chr 29:20 · 2Chr 1:6 · 2Chr 7:1 · +15 more

5I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Gen 20:11 · Gen 42:18 · Ex 1:17 · Ex 18:21 · Ex 22:21 · Lev 19:13 · +41 more

6“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.Cross-references: Gen 15:7 · Gen 15:18 · Gen 22:16 · Ex 3:14 · Num 23:19 · 1Sam 15:29 · +25 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

7From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’Cross-references: Lev 26:40 · Deut 4:29 · Deut 9:7 · Deut 30:1 · Deut 31:20 · Deut 31:27 · +28 more

8Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.Cross-references: Lev 5:15 · Lev 27:2 · Num 18:21 · Josh 7:11 · Neh 13:4 · Ps 29:2 · +8 more

9You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.Cross-references: Deut 28:15 · Josh 7:12 · Josh 22:20 · Isa 43:28 · Hag 1:6 · Hag 2:14 · +1 more

10Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be enough room for.Cross-references: Gen 7:11 · Lev 26:10 · Lev 27:30 · Num 18:21 · Deut 28:12 · 1Ki 17:13 · +18 more

11I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Deut 11:14 · Jer 8:13 · Joel 1:4 · Joel 1:7 · Joel 1:12 · Joel 2:20 · +6 more

12“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Deut 4:6 · Deut 8:7 · Deut 11:12 · 2Chr 32:23 · Ps 72:17 · Isa 61:9 · +7 more

13“Your words have been harsh against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’Cross-references: Ex 5:2 · 2Chr 32:14 · Job 34:7 · Job 40:8 · Ps 10:11 · Isa 5:19 · +9 more

14You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?Cross-references: Job 21:14 · Job 22:17 · Job 34:9 · Job 35:3 · Ps 73:8 · Isa 58:3 · +4 more

15Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’Cross-references: Num 14:22 · Esth 5:10 · Job 12:6 · Job 21:7 · Job 21:30 · Job 22:23 · +25 more

16Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared Yahweh and who honored his name.Cross-references: Gen 22:12 · Deut 6:6 · 1Sam 23:16 · 2Sam 7:1 · 1Ki 18:3 · 1Ki 18:12 · +50 more

17They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make. I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Deut 7:6 · Deut 14:2 · Deut 26:17 · Neh 13:22 · Ps 103:8 · +28 more

18Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Josh 24:15 · Job 6:29 · Job 17:10 · Ps 58:10 · Isa 3:10 · +15 more