² But who can endure^(A) the day of his coming?^(B) Who can stand^(C) when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire^(D) or a launderer’s soap.^{(E) 3} He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver;^(F) he will purify^(G) the Levites and refine them like gold and silver.^(H) Then the Lord will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness,^{(I) 4} and the offerings^(J) of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the Lord, as in days gone by, as in former years.^(K)

⁵ “So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers,^(L) adulterers^(M) and perjurers,^(N) against those who defraud laborers of their wages,^(O) who oppress the widows^(P) and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners^(Q) among you of justice, but do not fear^(R) me,” says the Lord Almighty.

Breaking Covenant by Withholding Tithes

⁶ “I the Lord do not change.^(S) So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.^(T)