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And his feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the mount of Olives shall be cleft in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

And Yahweh shall be King over all the earth: in that day Yahweh shall be [the only] one, and his name [the only] one.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from Yahweh shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.

but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

A son honors his father, and a slave his master: if then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says Yahweh of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, Wherein have we despised your name?

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.

The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

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.

Don't we all have one father? has not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

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.

Look, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, look, he comes, says Yahweh of hosts.

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:

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.

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.

Abraham begot Isaac; and Isaac begot Jacob; and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers;

And Josiah begot Jehoiachin and his brothers at the Babylonian Exile.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened like this: His mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they were married, she was found to be pregnant from the Holy Spirit.