Malachi 3 — Logos by Kai'Ros

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Malachi

Chapter 3

KJV · Textus Receptus

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

1Hwɛ, mɛsoma me bɔfoɔ, na ɔbɛsiesie ɛkwan no wɔ m'anim: na Awurade a mohwehwɛ no no, ɔbɛba ne asɔredan mu mpofirim, aane apam bɔfoɔ no, deɛ mo ani gye ne ho no: hwɛ, ɔbɛba, AWURADE Asafo na ɔseɛ.Under pastoral review

2Na hwan na ɔbɛtumi agyina ne ba da no ano? na hwan na ɔbɛgyina ɛberɛ a ɔbɛda ne ho adi? ɛfiri sɛ ɔte sɛ ɔnanefoɔ ogya, na ɔte sɛ ntomahohorofoɔ samina:Under pastoral review

3Na ɔbɛtena ase sɛ dwetɛ nanefoɔ ne ne dwirafoɔ: na ɔbɛdwira Lewi mma ho, na wapepa wɔn ho sɛ sika kɔkɔɔ ne dwetɛ, sɛdeɛ wɔde afɔrebɔ bɛbrɛ AWURADE wɔ tenenee mu.Under pastoral review

4Afei Yuda ne Yerusalem afɔrebɔ bɛsɔ AWURADE ani, sɛdeɛ na ɛteɛ tete nna mu, ne sɛdeɛ na ɛteɛ mfeɛ a atwam mu.Under pastoral review

5Na mɛbɛn mo abɛbu atɛn; na mɛyɛ ɔdanseni a ɔyɛ ntɛm atia ntafowayifoɔ, ne atia awaresɛefoɔ, ne atia atorɔ ntamkafoɔ, ne atia wɔn a wɔhyɛ ɔpaani so wɔ n'akatua mu, ne opremfoɔ baa, ne awisiaa, ne wɔn a wɔdane ɔhɔho firi ne kyɛfa so, na wɔnsuro me, AWURADE Asafo na ɔseɛ.Under pastoral review

6Ɛfiri sɛ mene AWURADE, mennsesa; ɛno enti mo Yakob mma, wɔnnsɛe mo.Under pastoral review

7Ɛfiri mo agyanom nna mu mpo, moamane afiri m'ahyɛdeɛ ho, na moanni so. Monsane mmra me nkyɛn, na mɛsane aba mo nkyɛn, AWURADE Asafo na ɔseɛ. Nanso mokaa sɛ, Ɛdeɛn mu na yɛbɛsane aba?Under pastoral review

8Onipa bɛbɔ Onyankopɔn korɔno anaa? Nanso moabɔ me korɔno. Nanso moka sɛ, Ɛdeɛn mu na yɛabɔ wo korɔno? Wɔ ntotosoɔ dudu ne afɔrebɔ mu.Under pastoral review

9Wɔadome mo nnome: ɛfiri sɛ moabɔ me korɔno, aane saa ɔman yi nyinaa.Under pastoral review

10Momfa ntotosoɔ dudu no nyinaa mmra akoradan mu, sɛdeɛ aduane bɛba me fie, na momfa yei nsɔ me nhwɛ seesei, AWURADE Asafo na ɔseɛ, sɛ merembue ɔsoro mfɛnsere mma mo, na merenhwie nhyira angu mo so, kɔsi sɛ baabi a wɔde bɛgye no rensɔ ano.Under pastoral review

11Na mɛka deɛ ɔwe adeɛ no anim mo enti, na ɔrensɛe mo asase so aba; na mo bobe rento ne so aba ansa na ɛberɛ aso wɔ afuo mu, AWURADE Asafo na ɔseɛ.Under pastoral review

12Na amanaman nyinaa bɛfrɛ mo nhyirafoɔ: ɛfiri sɛ mobɛyɛ asase a ɛyɛ anigyeɛ, AWURADE Asafo na ɔseɛ.Under pastoral review

13Mo nsɛm ayɛ den atia me, AWURADE na ɔseɛ. Nanso moka sɛ, Ɛdeɛn na yɛaka pii atia wo?Under pastoral review

14Moaka sɛ, Onyankopɔn som yɛ kwa: na mfasoɔ bɛn na ɛwɔ so sɛ yɛadi n'ahyɛdeɛ so, na yɛnantee awerɛhoɔ mu wɔ AWURADE Asafo anim?Under pastoral review

15Na seesei yɛfrɛ ahantanfoɔ anigyefoɔ; aane, wɔn a wɔyɛ amumuyɛ, wɔama wɔn so; aane, wɔn a wɔsɔ Onyankopɔn hwɛ, wɔgye wɔn mpo.Under pastoral review

16Afei wɔn a wɔsuro AWURADE no kasa kyerɛɛ wɔn ho wɔn ho mpɛn pii: na AWURADE tiee, na ɔtee, na wɔtwerɛɛ nkaeɛ nwoma wɔ n'anim maa wɔn a wɔsuro AWURADE, na wɔdwene ne din ho.Under pastoral review

17Na wɔbɛyɛ me dea, AWURADE Asafo na ɔseɛ, saa da no a mɛboaboa m'agudeɛ ano; na mɛfa wɔn ho akyɛ wɔn, sɛdeɛ onipa fa ne ba ankasa a ɔsom no ho kyɛ no.Under pastoral review

18Afei mobɛsane aba, na moahunu nsonsonoeɛ wɔ ɔteneneeni ne ɔdebɔneyɛni ntam, wɔ deɛ ɔsom Onyankopɔn ne deɛ ɔnsom no ntam.Under pastoral review

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