3 “Behold, I will send My messenger. And he shall prepare the way before Me. And the LORD Whom you seek shall speedily come to His Temple. The messenger of the Covenant, whom you desire, behold, he shall come,” says the LORD of Hosts.

² “But who may abide the Day of His coming? And who shall endure when He appears? For He is like a purging fire, and like launderer’s soap.

³ “And He shall sit down to try and refine the silver. He shall even refine the sons of Levi and purify them as gold and silver, so that they may bring Offerings to the LORD in righteousness.

⁴ “Then shall the Offerings of Judah and Jerusalem be acceptable to the LORD, as in days of old and in the years before.

⁵ “And I will come near to you, to judgment. And I will be a swift Witness against the soothsayers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who wrongfully keep back the hireling’s wages, and trouble the widow, and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

⁶ “For I am the LORD. I do not change. And you sons of Jacob are not at an end.

⁷ “From the days of your fathers, you have gone away from My Ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you said, ‘How shall we return?’

⁸ “Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’—in tithes and offerings.

⁹ “You are cursed with a curse. For this whole nation has robbed Me.

¹⁰ “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My House. And test Me now with this,” says the LORD of Hosts, “if I will not open the windows of Heaven for you and pour you out a blessing without measure.

¹¹ “And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes. And he shall not destroy the fruit of your ground. Nor shall your vine be barren in the field,” says the LORD of Hosts.

¹² “And all nations shall call you blessed. For you shall be a pleasant land,” says the LORD of Hosts.

¹³ “Your words have been stout against Me,” says the LORD, “yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

¹⁴ “You have said, ‘It is in vain to serve God,’ and, ‘What profit is it that we have kept His Commandment and that we walked humbly before the LORD of Hosts?

¹⁵ ‘Therefore, we count the proud blessed. Even those who work wickedness are set up. And those who tempt God, yea, they are delivered.’”

¹⁶ Then those who feared the LORD spoke, everyone to his neighbor. And the LORD listened and heard it. And a Book of Remembrance was written before Him for those who feared the LORD, and who thought upon His Name.

¹⁷ “And they shall be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on that Day that I shall make them My possession. And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.”

¹⁸ Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and wicked, between him who serves God and him who does not serve Him.