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For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

And you shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah; and Yahweh my God shall come, and all the holy ones with you.

And when you offer the blind for sacrifice, it is no evil! and when you offer the lame and sick, it is no evil! Present it now to your governor; will he be pleased with you? or will he accept your person? says Yahweh of hosts.

For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense [shall be] offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles, says Yahweh of hosts.

But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King, says Yahweh of hosts, and my name is awesome among the Gentiles.

And now, O you priests, this commandment is for you.

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of hosts.

Judah has dealt treacherously, and a disgusting thing is done in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

For he hates divorce, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, and him that covers his garment with violence, says Yahweh of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.

But who can abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap:

For I, Yahweh, don't change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

Bring the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, says Yahweh of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour out a blessing for you, that there shall not be room enough [to receive it].

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

And all nations shall call you happy; for you shall be a delightsome land, says Yahweh of hosts.

Then those that feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those that feared Yahweh, and that thought on his name.

For, look, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, says Yahweh of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, says Yahweh of hosts.

Remember the law of Moses my slave, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

And she will give birth to a son, and you will call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."