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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.
4 “For behold, the Day comes that shall burn as an oven. And all the proud—yea, and all who do wickedly—shall be stubble. And the Day that comes shall burn them up,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 “But to you who fear My Name shall the Sun of righteousness arise. And health shall be under His wings. And you shall go forth and grow up as fat calves.
3 “And you shall tread down the wicked. For they shall be dust under the soles of your feet on the Day that I shall do this,” says the LORD of Hosts.
4 Remember the Law of Moses, My servant, which I Commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, with the Statutes and Judgments.
5 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the Prophet before the coming of the great and fearful Day of the LORD.
6 “And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the Earth with utter destruction.”
22 And he showed me a pure river of water of life - clear as crystal - proceeding out of the throne of God, and of the Lamb.
2 In the midst of the street of it - and on either side of the river - was the Tree of Life, which bore twelve kinds of fruits and gave fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree served to heal the nations.
3 And there shall no longer be any curse. But the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.
4 And they shall see His face. And His Name shall be on their foreheads.
5 And there shall be no night there. And they need no lamp, nor light of the Sun. For the Lord God gives them Light. And they shall reign forevermore.
6 And he said to me, “These words are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the holy Prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must shortly be fulfilled.
7 “Behold, I come shortly. Blessed is he who keeps the Words of the Prophecy of this Book.”
8 And I am John, who saw and heard these things. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.
9 But he said to me, “See that you do not do it. For I am your fellow servant; and of your brothers, the Prophets; and of those who keep the Words of this Book. Worship God.”
10 And he said to me, “Do not seal the Words of the Prophecy of this Book. For the time is at hand.
11 “He who is unjust, let him still be unjust. And he who is filthy, let him still be filthy. And he who is righteous, let him still be righteous. And he who is holy, let him still be holy.
12 “And behold, I come shortly. And My reward is with Me: to give to every man according as his work shall be.
13 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
14 “Blessed are those who do His Commandments; in that the Tree of Life may be their right and they may enter in through the gates, into the City.
15 “For outside shall be dogs and enchanters and whoremongers and murderers and idolaters and whoever loves or makes lies.
16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and the generation of David, and the Bright Morning Star.
17 “And the Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’ And let him who hears say, ‘Come.’ And let him who is thirsty, come. And let whoever will, partake of the Water of Life freely.
18 “For I testify to everyone who hears the Words of the Prophecy of this Book. If anyone shall add to these things, God shall add to him the plagues that are written in this Book.
19 And if anyone shall take away from the Words of the Book of this Prophecy, God shall take out his part of the Book of Life, and of the holy City, and from those things which are written in this Book.”
20 He who testifies these things, says, “Surely I come quickly. Amen.” Even so, come Lord Jesus.
21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
150 Praise God in His Sanctuary! Praise Him in the firmament of His power.
2 Praise Him in His mighty acts! Praise Him according to His excellent greatness.
3 Praise Him in the sound of the trumpet! Praise Him upon the viol and the harp.
4 Praise Him with timbrel and flute! Praise Him with virginals and organs.
5 Praise Him with sounding cymbals! Praise Him with high sounding cymbals.
6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!
25 Strength and honor are her clothing. And in the coming days she shall rejoice.
26 She opens her mouth with wisdom. And the law of grace is in her tongue.
27 She oversees the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.
28 Her children rise and call her blessed; her husband also. He praises her, saying,
29 “Many daughters have done virtuously. But you exceed them all.”
30 Charm is deceitful; and beauty but a vapor. But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.
31 Give her of the fruit of her hands. And let her own works praise her in the gates.
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