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3:1  Behold, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me. And suddenly the Lord whom you seek will come to the temple, as well as the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight. Indeed he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
3:2  But who will be able to endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire or like a fuller’s soap.
3:3  He will sit refining and purifying; he will purify the descendants of Levi and refine them like gold or silver so that they may in righteousness offer due sacrifice to the Lord.
3:4  Thus the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old, as in the years long past.
3:5  Then I will draw near to you for judgment, and I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, adulterers, and perjurers, against those who defraud the hired laborer of his wages, against those who wrong widows and orphans, against those who thrust aside the foreigner, and against those who do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
3:6  For I, the Lord, do not change, and you have not ceased to be sons of Jacob.
3:7  Since the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. Yet you ask, “How can we return?”
3:8  Can a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. You ask, “How do we rob you?” In your tithes and offerings.
3:9  There is a curse on you all, for your entire nation has defrauded me.
3:10  Bring the tithes in full into the treasury so that there may be food in my house. Put me thus to the test, says the Lord of hosts, and see if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down blessings upon you without measure.
3:11  For your sake I will forbid the locusts to destroy the produce of your soil, and the vines in your fields will not be barren, says the Lord of hosts.
3:12  Then all nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a land of delight, says the Lord of hosts.
3:13  You have spoken harsh words against me, says the Lord. Yet you ask, “What have we said against you?”
3:14  You have said, “It is useless to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his commands or by going about in penitential garb before the Lord of hosts?
3:15  For our part, we regard the arrogant as happy. Evildoers not only prosper, but when they put God to the test, they come to no harm.”
3:16  Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord listened attentively, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared him and trusted in his name.
3:17  They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my own special possession on the day when I act, and I will have compassion on them as a father has compassion on the son who serves him.
3:18  Then you will once again see the difference between the just and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who refuses to serve him.