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3:1  “Look! I am sending my messenger to clear the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple. Yes, the messenger of the covenant, in whom you take such delight — look! Here he comes,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
3:2  But who can endure the day when he comes? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire, like the soapmaker’s lye.
3:3  He will sit, testing and purifying the silver; he will purify the sons of Levi, refining them like gold and silver, so that they can bring offerings to Adonai uprightly.
3:4  Then the offering of Y’hudah and Yerushalayim will be pleasing to Adonai, as it was in the days of old, as in years gone by.
3:5  “Then I will approach you for judgment; and I will be quick to witness against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers; against those who take advantage of wage-earners, widows and orphans; against those who rob the foreigner of his rights and don’t fear me,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
3:6  “But because I, Adonai, do not change, you sons of Ya‘akov will not be destroyed.
3:7  Since the days of your forefathers you have turned from my laws and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. “But you ask, ‘In respect to what are we supposed to return?’
3:8  Can a person rob God? Yet you rob me. But you ask, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tenths and voluntary contributions.
3:9  A curse is on you, on your whole nation, because you rob me.
3:10  Bring the whole tenth into the storehouse, so that there will be food in my house, and put me to the test,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. “See if I won’t open for you the floodgates of heaven and pour out for you a blessing far beyond your needs.
3:11  For your sakes I will forbid the devourer to destroy the yield from your soil; and your vine will not lose its fruit before harvest-time,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
3:12  “All nations will call you happy, for you will be a land of delights,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
3:13  “You have spoken strongly against me,” says Adonai. “Yet you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’
3:14  By saying, ‘There is no point in serving God. What good is it to obey his orders or to walk about as mourners before Adonai-Tzva’ot?
3:15  We consider the arrogant happy; also evildoers prosper; they put God to the test; nevertheless, they escape.’”
3:16  Then those who feared Adonai spoke together; and Adonai listened and heard. A record book was written in his presence for those who feared Adonai and had respect for his name.
3:17  “They will be mine,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “on the day when I compose my own special treasure. I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.
3:18  Then once again you will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between the person who serves God and one that doesn’t serve him.