The Prophecy of Malachias, Chapter 1

1   The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand
    of Malachias.
2   I have loved you, saith the Lord: and you have said:
    Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob,
    saith the Lord, and I have loved Jacob,
3   But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a
    wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of
    the desert.
4   But if Edom shall say: We are destroyed, but we will
    return and build up what hath been destroyed: thus saith
    the Lord of hosts: They shall build up, and I will throw
    down: and they shall be called the borders of wickedness,
    and the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever.
5   And your eyes shall see, and you shall say: The Lord be
    magnified upon the border of Israel.
6   The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master:
    if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a
    master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts.
7   To you, O priests, that despise my name, and have said:
    Wherein have we despised thy name? You offer polluted
    bread upon my altar, and you say: Wherein have we polluted
    thee? In that you say: The table of the Lord is
    contemptible.
8   If you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and
    if you offer the lame and the sick, is it not evil? offer
    it to thy prince, if he will be pleased with it, or if he
    will regard thy face, saith the Lord of hosts.
9   And now beseech ye the face of God, that he may have mercy
    on you, (for by your hand hath this been done,) if by any
    means he will receive your faces, saith the Lord of hosts.
10  Who is there among you, that will shut the doors, and will
    kindle the fire on my altar gratis? I have no pleasure in
    you, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will not receive a
    gift of your hand.
11  For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my
    name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there
    is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean
    oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith
    the Lord of hosts.
12  And you have profaned it in that you say: The table of the
    Lord is defiled: and that which is laid thereupon is
    contemptible with the fire that devoureth it.
13  And you have said: Behold of our labour, and you puffed it
    away, saith the Lord of hosts, and you brought in of
    rapine the lame, and the sick, and brought in an offering:
    shall I accept it at your hands, saith the Lord?
14  Cursed is the deceitful man that hath in his flock a male,
    and making a vow offereth in sacrifice that which is
    feeble to the Lord: for I am a great King, saith the Lord
    of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the Gentiles.


              The Prophecy of Malachias, Chapter 2

1   And now, O ye priests, this commandment is to you.
2   If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart,
    to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will
    send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea
    I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.
3   Behold, I will cast the shoulder to you, and I will
    scatter upon your face the dung of your solemnities, and
    it shall take you away with it.
4   And you shall know that I sent you this commandment, that
    my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.
5   My covenant was with him of life and peace: and I gave him
    fear: and he feared me, and he was afraid before my name.
6   The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not
    found in his lips: he walked with me in peace, and in
    equity, and turned many away from iniquity.
7   For the lips of the priest shall keep knowledge, and they
    shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel
    of the Lord of hosts.
8   But you have departed out of the way, and have caused many
    to stumble at the law: you have made void the covenant of
    Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.
9   Therefore have I also made you contemptible, and base
    before all people, as you have not kept my ways, and have
    accepted persons in the law.
10  Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?
    why then doth every one of us despise his brother,
    violating the covenant of our fathers?
11  Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been
    committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath
    profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and
    hath married the daughter of a strange God.
12  The Lord will cut off the man that hath done this, both
    the master, and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of
    Jacob, and him that offereth an offering to the Lord of
    hosts.
13  And this again have you done, you have covered the altar
    of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and bellowing, so
    that I have no more a regard to sacrifice, neither do I
    accept any atonement at your hands.
14  And you have said: For what cause? Because the Lord hath
    been witness between thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom
    thou hast despised: yet she was thy partner, and the wife
    of thy covenant.
15  Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his
    spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep
    then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.
16  When thou shalt hate her put her away, saith the Lord the
    God of Israel: but iniquity shall cover his garment, saith
    the Lord of hosts, keep your spirit, and despise not.
17  You have wearied the Lord with your words, and you said:
    Wherein have we wearied him? In that you say: Every one
    that doth evil, is good in the sight of the Lord, and such
    please him: or surely where is the God of judgment?


              The Prophecy of Malachias, Chapter 3

1   Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way
    before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and
    the angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to
    his temple. Behold he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts.
2   And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming?
    and who shall stand to see him? for he is like a refining
    fire, and like the fuller's herb:
3   And he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he
    shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall refine them as
    gold, and as silver, and they shall offer sacrifices to
    the Lord in justice.
4   And the sacrifice of Juda and of Jerusalem shall please
    the Lord, as in the days of old, and in the ancient years.
5   And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy
    witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false
    swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages;
    the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger,
    and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.
6   For I am the Lord, and I change not: and you the sons of
    Jacob are not consumed.
7   For from the days of your fathers you have departed from
    my ordinances, and have not kept them: Return to me, and
    I will return to you, saith the Lord of hosts. And you
    have said: Wherein shall we return?
8   Shall a man afflict God? for you afflict me. And you have
    said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in
    firstfruits.
9   And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even the
    whole nation of you.
10  Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may
    be meat in my house, and try me in this, saith the Lord:
    if I open not unto you the flood-gates of heaven, and pour
    you out a blessing even to abundance.
11  And I will rebuke for your sakes the devourer, and he
    shall not spoil the fruit of your land: neither shall the
    vine in the field be barren, saith the Lord of hosts.
12  And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be
    a delightful land, saith the Lord of hosts.
13  Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.
14  And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You
    have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what
    profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we
    have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?
15  Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they
    that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted
    God and are preserved.
16  Then they that feared the Lord spoke every one with his
    neighbour: and the Lord gave ear, and heard it: and a book
    of remembrance was written before him for them that fear
    the Lord, and think on his name.
17  And they shall be my special possession, saith the Lord of
    hosts, in the day that I do judgment: and I will spare
    them, as a man spareth his son that serveth him.
18  And you shall return, and shall see the difference between
    the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God,
    and him that serveth him not.


              The Prophecy of Malachias, Chapter 4

1   For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: and
    all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble:
    and the day that cometh shall set them on fire, saith the
    Lord of hosts, it shall not leave them root, nor branch.
2   But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall
    arise, and health in his wings: and you shall go forth,
    and shall leap like calves of the herd.
3   And you shall tread down the wicked when they shall be
    ashes under the sole of your feet in the day that I do
    this, saith the Lord of hosts.
4   Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded
    him in Horeb for all Israel, the precepts, and judgments.
5   Behold I will send you Elias the prophet, before the
    coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
6   And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the
    children, and the heart of the children to their fathers:
    lest I come, and strike the earth with anathema.