NITHYAM SONGSMalachi 3
World English Bible (WEB) • 18 verses
1“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me! The Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple. Behold, the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, is coming!” says the LORD of Armies.
2“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;
RelatedZechariah 13:9 · 1 Corinthians 3:13-15 · Isaiah 4:4 · Revelation 6:17 · 1 Peter 2:7-8 · Luke 21:36
3and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to the LORD offerings in righteousness.
RelatedIsaiah 1:25 · Proverbs 17:3 · Zechariah 13:9 · Hebrews 12:10 · Daniel 12:10 · Ephesians 5:26-27
4Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the LORD as in the days of old and as in ancient years.
Related2 Chronicles 7:1-3 · Zechariah 8:3 · Isaiah 56:7 · Ezekiel 43:26-27 · Jeremiah 30:18-20 · Ezekiel 20:40-41
5I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says the LORD of Armies.
6“For I, the LORD, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
RelatedNumbers 23:19 · Hebrews 13:8 · James 1:17 · Lamentations 3:22-23 · Jeremiah 32:27 · Isaiah 40:28-31
7From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’
8Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.
9You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
RelatedDeuteronomy 28:15-19 · Malachi 2:2 · Haggai 2:14-17 · Haggai 1:6-11 · Joshua 22:20 · Isaiah 43:28
10Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says the LORD of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be enough room for.
Related2 Corinthians 9:6-8 · Matthew 6:33 · Proverbs 3:9-10 · Psalms 37:3 · Deuteronomy 28:12 · Leviticus 27:30
11I 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 its time in the field,” says the LORD of Armies.
12“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says the LORD of Armies.
13“Your words have been harsh against me,” says the LORD. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
RelatedMalachi 2:17 · Isaiah 37:23 · Romans 9:20 · Malachi 1:6-8 · 2 Thessalonians 2:4 · Jeremiah 8:12
14You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies?
15Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
16Then those who feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared the LORD and who honored his name.
RelatedRevelation 20:12 · Psalms 56:8 · Malachi 4:2 · Revelation 15:4 · Isaiah 26:3 · Hebrews 4:12-13
17They shall be mine,” says the LORD of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make. I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
RelatedExodus 19:5 · Deuteronomy 7:6 · 2 Corinthians 6:18 · Isaiah 62:3-4 · Romans 8:32 · Jeremiah 32:38-39
18Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
RelatedMatthew 25:46 · Genesis 18:25 · Psalms 58:10-11 · Joshua 24:15 · Malachi 3:14-15 · Acts 27:23
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.