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1 A prophecy: The word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi.

1 “And now, you priests, this warning is for you.

9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me.

6 “I the LORD do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.

12 “But you profane it by saying, ‘The Lord’s table is defiled,’ and, ‘Its food is contemptible.’

13 “You have spoken arrogantly against me,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we said against you?’

12 “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the LORD Almighty.

4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.

5 “See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes.

5 You will see it with your own eyes and say, ‘Great is the LORD—even beyond the borders of Israel!’

4 and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the LORD, as in days gone by, as in former years.

8 “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings.

3 but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

9 “Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?”—says the LORD Almighty.

4 And you will know that I have sent you this warning so that my covenant with Levi may continue,” says the LORD Almighty.

18 And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.

7 “By offering defiled food on my altar. “But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’ “By saying that the LORD’s table is contemptible.

15 But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.’ ”

6 True instruction was in his mouth and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many from sin.

7 “For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, because he is the messenger of the LORD Almighty and people seek instruction from his mouth.