BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and Adonai, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his Temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, says Yahuah Tseva'oth.
But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Leviy, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto Yahuah an offering in righteousness.
Then shall the offering of Yahudah and Yerushalayim be pleasant unto Yahuah, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against those who break wedlock, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, says Yahuah Tseva'oth.
For I am Yahuah, I change not; therefore ye sons of Ya`aqov are not consumed.
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from my ordinances, and have not guarded them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, says Yahuah Tseva'oth. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
Will a man rob Elohiym? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.
Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me now herewith, says Yahuah Tseva'oth, if I will not open you את the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, says Yahuah Tseva'oth.
And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, says Yahuah Tseva'oth.
Your words have been stout against me, says Yahuah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against you?
Ye have said, It is vain to serve Elohiym: and what profit is it that we have guarded his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahuah Tseva'oth?
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt Elohiym are even delivered.
Then they that feared Yahuah spoke often one to another: and Yahuah hearkened, and heard it, and a cepher of record was written before him for them that feared Yahuah, and that thought upon his name.
And they shall be mine, says Yahuah Tseva'oth, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves Elohiym and him that serves him not.