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So you shall learn your lesson; my law I gave you, says the Lord of hosts, in token of my covenant with Levi’s family. (Malachi 2, 4)
No utterance like a priest’s for learning; from no other lips men will expect true guidance; is he not a messenger✻ to them from the Lord of hosts? (Malachi 2, 7)
That path you have forsaken; through your ill teaching, how many a foothold lost! Nay, says the Lord of hosts, you have annulled my covenant with Levi altogether. (Malachi 2, 8)
Here is great wrong in Juda, here are foul deeds done by Israel and Jerusalem!✻ Juda, that was once content to be set apart for the Lord, has profaned that holy estate, has taken wives that worship a god he knew not. (Malachi 2, 11)
Doer of such a deed, set he or followed the ill example, shall be lost to the dwelling-place of Jacob, for all his offerings made to the Lord of hosts. (Malachi 2, 12)
And anon, weeping and wailing, you drench the Lord’s altar with your tears! What marvel if I heed your sacrifices no more, gift of yours is none can appease me? (Malachi 2, 13)
And the reason of it? Because the Lord bears witness to her wrongs, that wife of thy manhood’s age, whom now thou spurnest, thy partner, thy covenanted bride! (Malachi 2, 14)
what though the God of Israel gives thee leave to send her away if she suits thee ill? Garment of her, says the Lord of hosts, is yet stained with the wrong thou didst her. Will of thine forgo not, wife of thine spurn not.✻ (Malachi 2, 16)
Oh, but the Lord is aweary of your doings! And little wonder, when you think so amiss of him; telling yourselves, Foul is fair in the Lord’s sight, and wrong-doing well likes him; God that judges us is none. (Malachi 2, 17)
See where I am sending an angel of mine, to make the way ready for my coming! All at once the Lord will visit his temple; that Lord, so longed for, welcome herald of a divine covenant. Ay, says the Lord of hosts, he is coming; (Malachi 3, 1)
From his judgement-seat, he will refine that silver of his and cleanse it from dross; like silver or gold, the sons of Levi must be refined in the crucible, ere they can offer the Lord sacrifice duly performed. (Malachi 3, 3)
Then once more the Lord will accept the offerings of Juda and Jerusalem, as he did long since, in the forgotten years. (Malachi 3, 4)
