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Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to Yahweh, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.

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 the false swearers, and against those who unjustly reduce the wages of the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner [from his right], and don't fear me, says Yahweh of hosts.

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

From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says Yahweh of hosts. But you say, Wherein shall we return?

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.

Your words have been stout against me, says Yahweh. Yet you say, What have we spoken against you?

You have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before 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.

And they shall be mine, says Yahweh of hosts, [even] my own possession, in the day that I make; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.

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.

Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of Yahweh comes.