1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

<>Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me, <>the Lord, whom ye seek, <>the Lord … shall suddenly come, <>whom ye delight in, <>delight

2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

<>who may abide the day of his coming?, <>his coming, <>who shall stand when he appeareth?

3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

<>he shall purify … and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness, <>sons, <>Levi, <>gold and silver

4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

<>Judah, <>pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, <>pleasant unto the LORD, <>pleasant unto the LORD … as in former years

5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

<>I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, <>I will be a swift witness against … the adulterers, <>I will be a swift witness against … false swearers, <>I will be a swift witness against … those that oppress the hireling in his wages, <>I will be a swift witness against … those that oppress … the widow, and the fatherless, <>the widow, <>the stranger

6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

<>I am the LORD, I change not, <>I am the LORD, <>Jacob, <>consumed

7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

<>ordinances, <>Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts., <>Return unto me … saith the LORD of hosts.

8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

<>rob … robbed … robbed, <>tithes

9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

<>meat, <>mine house, <>prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it, <>prove me

11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

<>I will rebuke the devourer, <>the devourer, <>neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time, <>vine, <>the time

12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

<>all nations shall call you blessed, <>a delightsome land

13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

<>v. 15, <>they that tempt God

16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

<>they that feared the LORD spake often one to another, <>one to another, <>a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name, <>written, <>thought upon his name

17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

<>my jewels

18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

<>Then shall ye … discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.