3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he will come, saith the LORD of hosts. 
3:1 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. 

3:2 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 fuller's soap. 
3:2 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: 

3:3 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 to the LORD an offering in righteousness. 
3:3 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 to the LORD an offering in righteousness. 

3:4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. 
3:4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. 

3:5 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. 
3:5 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. 

3:6 For I {am} the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. 
3:6 For I {am} the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. 

3:7 Even from the days of your fathers ye have gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept {them}. Return to me, and I will return to you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, In what shall we return? 
3:7 Even from the days of your fathers ye have gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept {them}. Return to me, and I will return to you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, How shall we return? 

3:8 Will a man rob God? yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, In what have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 
3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, How have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 

3:9 Ye {are} cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, {even} this whole nation. 
3:9 Ye {are} cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, {even} this whole nation. 

3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now with this, 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}. 
3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that {there shall} not {be room} enough {to receive it}. 

3:11 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. 
3:11 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. 

3:12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts. 
3:12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts. 

3:13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken {so much} against thee? 
3:13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken {so much} against thee? 

3:14 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? 
3:14 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? 

3:15 And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are set up; even {they that} tempt God are delivered. 
3:15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; even {they that} tempt God are delivered. 

3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke 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. 
3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke 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. 

3:17 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. 
3:17 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. 

3:18 Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. 
3:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.