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11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he 1 Or, ought || loved, and hath married the daughter Ezra 9. 1. of a strange god.

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12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, and him that out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.

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The people's infidelity.

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coming? and 'who shall stand when he Before appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, cir and like fullers' sope:

f Rev. 6. 17.

3 And he shall sit as a refiner and See Isa. 4 4. Matt. 3 purifier of silver: and he shall purify the 10, 11, 12 sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

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4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in || former Oran years.

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5 And I will come near to you to judgment: and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, Jum. 544 and against those that || oppress the hire-r ling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

6 For I am the LORD, "I change not; "therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

7¶ Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances and have not kept them. "Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

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8¶ Will a man rob God? Yet ye robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

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10' Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in Chron mine house, and prove me now herewith, 31.11. Ne saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open 12 you the "windows of heaven, and pour Ge you out a blessing, that there shall not be empty room enough to receive it.

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11 And I will rebuke the devourer 31.1 for your sakes, and he shall not +destroy the fruits of your ground; neither rupt shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, Dan & saith the LORD of hosts.

13¶Your words have been stout 10 against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

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God's judgment on the wicked.

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Ps. 56.8. Isal. 65. 6. Rev. 20. 12. h Exod. 19. 5. Deut. 7.

6. P. 135.4.

Tit. 2. 14. 1 Pet. 2. 9.

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i Isai. 62. 3. k Ps. 103. 13.

CHAP. IV.

LORD hearkened, and heard it, and "a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

17. And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

18 1Then shall ye return, and discern 1 P. 58. 11. between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

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Elijah's coming and office eth shall burn them up, saith the LORD of Before hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

CHRIST cir. 397. d Amos 2.9.

ch. 3. 16. Luke 1.78. bet. 1, 19

Eph. 5. 14. 2 1.

21 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 35 And ye shall tread down the wicked; & 2 Sam. 22. for they shall be ashes under the soles of 10. Zech. 10. 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.

5¶ Behold, I will send you 1Elijah 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 I come and smite the earth with a curse.

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