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Я MALACHІ.

CHAP. I. ness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith HE burden of the word of the LORD to the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that Israel by Malachi. which was torn, and the lame, and the 2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. sick; thus ye brought an offering: should Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? I accept this of your hand? saith the Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD.

LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

14 ¶ But cursed be the deceiver, which 3 And I hated Esau, and laid his moun- hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and tains and his heritage waste for the dragons sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: of the wilderness. for I am a great King, saith the LORD of 4 Whereas Edom saith, We are im- hosts, and my name is dreadful among the poverished, but we will return and build heathen.

the desolate places; thus saith the LORD

CHAP. II.

2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not

of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw AND now, O ye priests, this commanddown; and they shall call them, The ment is for you. border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, for ever. saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the

border of Israel.

6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.

8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.

3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.

6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.

7 For the priest's lips should keep 9 And now, I pray you, beseech God knowledge, and they should seek the law that he will be gracious unto us: this hath at his mouth: for he is the messenger of been by your means: will he regard your the LORD of hosts. persons? saith the LORD of hosts.

8 But ye are departed out of the way;

10 Who is there even among you that ye have caused many to stumble at the would shut the doors for nought? neither law; ye have corrupted the covenant of do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD 9 Therefore have I also made you conof hosts, neither will I accept an offering at temptible and base before all the people, your hand. according as ye have not kept my ways, 11 For from the rising of the sun even but have been partial in the law. unto the going down of the same my name 10 Have we not all one father? hath shall be great among the Gentiles; and in not one God created us? Why do we deal every place incense shall be offered unto treacherously every man against his bromy name, and a pure offering: for my ther, by profaning the covenant of our faname shall be great among the heathen, thers? saith the LORD of hosts.

11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and

12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye an abomination is committed in Israel and say, The table of the LORD is polluted; in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is con- the holiness of the LORD which he loved, temptible. and hath married the daughter of a strange

13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weari- god.

Majesty and grace of Christ.

MALACHI.

The people's infidelity. 12 The LORD will cut off the man that ye are gone away from mine ordinances, doeth this, the master and the scholar, out and have not kept them. Return unto me, of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that and I will return unto you, saith the LORD offereth an offering unto the LORD of of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we hosts. return?

13 ¶ And this have ye done again, co- 8 ¶ Will a man rob God? Yet ye have vering the altar of the LORD with tears, robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have with weeping, and with crying out, inso- we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. much that he regardeth not the offering 9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye any more, or receiveth it with good will at have robbed me, even this whole nation. your hand. 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the store14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the house, that there may be meat in mine LORD hath been witness between thee and house, and prove me now herewith, saith the wife of thy youth, against whom thou the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy the windows of heaven, and pour you out companion, and the wife of thy covenant. a blessing, that there shall not be room

15 And did not he make one? Yet had enough to receive it.

he the residue of the Spirit. And where- 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for fore one? That he might seek a godly seed. your sakes, and he shall not destroy the Therefore take heed to your spirit, and fruits of your ground; neither shall your let none deal treacherously against the wife vine cast her fruit before the time in the of his youth. field, saith the LORD of hosts.

16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, 12 And all nations shall call you blesssaith, that he hateth putting away: for one ed for ye shall be a delightsome land, covereth violence with his garment, saith saith the LORD of hosts.

the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to 13 Your words have been stout your spirit, that ye deal not treacherous- against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, ly. What have we spoken so much against

17 Ye have wearied the LORD with thee? your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve we wearied him? When ye say, Every one God: and what profit is it that we have that doeth evil is good in the sight of the kept his ordinance, and that we have LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where walked mournfully before the LORD of is the God of judgment?

CHAP. III.

hosts?

15 And now we call the proud happy;

BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, yea, they that work wickedness are set

the way

and he shall prepare before up; yea, they that tempt God are even deme: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall livered. suddenly come to his temple, even the mes- 16 Then they that feared the LORD senger of the covenant, whom ye delight spake often one to another: and the LORD in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD hearkened, and heard it: and a book of of hosts. remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap.

17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make 3 And he shall sit as a refiner and puri- up my jewels; and I will spare them, as fier of silver and he shall purify the sons a man spareth his own son that serveth of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, him.

that they may offer unto the LORD an of 18 Then shall ye return and discern befering in righteousness. tween the righteous and the wicked, be4 Then shall the offering of Judah and tween him that serveth God and him that Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as serveth him not. in the days of old, and as in former years.

CHAP. IV.

5 And I will come near to you to judg-FOR behold, the day cometh, that shall ment and I will be a swift witness against burn as an oven; and all the proud, the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be and against false swearers, and against stubble: and the day that cometh shall those that oppress the hireling in his wa- burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, ges, the widow, and the fatherless, and that that it shall leave them neither root nor turn aside the stranger from his right, and branch. fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

2 ¶ But unto you that fear my name, 6 For I am the LORD, I change not; shall the Sun of righteousness arise with therefore ye sons of Jacob are not con-healing in his wings; and ye shall go sumed. forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 7 ¶ Even from the days of your fathers! 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked;

God's judgment on the wicked.

CHAP. IV. for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.

4 ¶ Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

Elijah's coming and office. 5 ¶ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful 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 1 come and smite the earth with a curse. 687

END OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.

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3d day,

4th day,

5th day,

6th day,

7th, or Sabbath

The day, reckoning The 1st watch, from sunset to
from sunrise, and the 3d hour of the night.

Monday. the night from sun-The 2d, or middle watch, from
Tuesday. set, were each divi- the 3d hour to the 6th.
Wednesday. ded into 12 equal The 3d watch, or cock-crowing,
Thursday. parts, called, The from the 6th to the 9th.
Friday. 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, The 4th, or morning watch, from
Saturday. &c. Hours.
the 9th hour to sunrise.

THE

NEW TESTAMENT

OF OUR

LORD AND SAVIOUR

JESUS CHRIST:

TRANSLATED OUT OF

THE ORIGINAL GREEK,

AND WITH THE

FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED.

STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY,
LATE T. H. CARTER & co.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY HILLIARD, GRAY, LITTLE, AND WILKINS, MUNROE & FRANCIS, RICHARDSON & LORD, LINCOLN & EDMANDS, CROCKER & BREWSTER, T. BEDLINGTON, R. P. & C. WILLIAMS, CHARLES EWER, THOMAS WELLS, AND JOSIAH LORING.

Printed at Treadwell's Power-Press.
1831.

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