Malachi 3-4; Psalm 64 - Prayer Tents

Malachi 3

The Purifier

3"Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming," says the LORD of hosts.H7971H4397H6437H1870H6440H113H1245H6597H935H1964H4397H1285H2655H935H559H3068H66352"But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.H3557H3117H935H5975H7200H6884H784H3526H12873"And He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the LORD offerings in righteousness.H3427H6884H2891H3701H2891H1121H3878H2212H2091H3701H5066H3068H4503H66664"Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD, as in the days of old and as in former years.H4503H3063H3389H6149H3068H3117H5769H6931H81415"Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien, and do not fear Me," says the LORD of hosts.H7126H4941H4116H5707H3784H5003H8267H7650H6231H7916H7939H490H3490H5186H1616H3372H559H3068H66356"For I, the LORD, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.H3068H8138H1121H3290H36157"From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes, and have not kept [them.] Return to Me, and I will return to you," says the LORD of hosts." But you say, 'How shall we return?'H3117H1H5493H2706H8104H7725H7725H559H3068H6635H559H7725

You Have Robbed God

8"Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, 'How have we robbed Thee?' In tithes and offerings.H120H6906H430H6906H559H6906H4643H86419"You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation [of you]!H779H3994H6906H147110"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this," says the LORD of hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.H935H4643H214H2964H1004H974H2063H559H3068H6635H6605H699H8064H7324H1293H176711"Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it may not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast [its grapes]," says the LORD of hosts.H1605H398H7843H6529H127H1612H7921H7704H559H3068H663512"And all the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a delightful land," says the LORD of hosts.H1471H833H2656H776H559H3068H663513"Your words have been arrogant against Me," says the LORD. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against Thee?'H1697H2388H559H3068H559H169614"You have said, 'It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts?H559H7723H5647H430H1215H8104H4931H1980H6941H6440H3068H663515'So now we call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up, but they also test God and escape.' "H833H2086H833H6213H7564H1129H974H430H4422

The Book of Remembrance

16Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD gave attention and heard [it,] and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the LORD and who esteem His name.H3373H3068H1696H376H7453H3068H7181H8085H5612H2146H3789H6440H3373H3068H2803H803417"And they will be Mine," says the LORD of hosts, "on the day that I prepare [My] own possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him."H559H3068H6635H3117H6213H5459H2550H376H2550H1121H564718So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.H7725H7200H6662H7563H5647H430H5647

Malachi 4

Final Admonition

4"For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze," says the LORD of hosts, "so that it will leave them neither root nor branch."H3117H935H1197H8574H2086H6213H7564H7179H3117H935H3857H559H3068H6635H5800H8328H60572"But for you who fear My name the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.H3373H8034H8121H6666H2224H4832H3671H3318H6335H5695H47703"And you will tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says the LORD of hosts.H6072H7563H665H3709H7272H3117H6213H559H3068H66354"Remember the law of Moses My servant, [even the] statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.H2142H8451H4872H5650H6680H2722H3478H2706H49415"Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD.H7971H452H5030H6440H935H1419H3372H3117H30686"And he will restore the hearts of the fathers to [their] children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse."H7725H3820H1H1121H3820H1121H1H935H5221H776H2764

Psalm 64

64{For the choir director. A Psalm of David.} Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; Preserve my life from dread of the enemy.H5329H4210H1732H8085H6963H430H7879H5341H2416H6343H3412Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers, From the tumult of those who do iniquity,H5641H5475H7489H7285H6466H2053Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword. They aimed bitter speech [as] their arrow,H8150H3956H2719H1869H2671H4751H16974To shoot from concealment at the blameless; Suddenly they shoot at him, and do not fear.H3384H4565H8535H6597H3384H33725They hold fast to themselves an evil purpose; They talk of laying snares secretly; They say, "Who can see them?"H2388H7451H1697H5608H2934H4170H2934H559H72006They devise injustices, [saying,] "We are ready with a well-conceived plot"; For the inward thought and the heart of a man are deep.H2664H5766H8552H2664H2665H7130H376H3820H60137But God will shoot at them with an arrow; Suddenly they will be wounded.H430H3384H2671H6597H43478So they will make him stumble; Their own tongue is against them; All who see them will shake the head.H3956H3782H7200H50749Then all men will fear, And will declare the work of God, And will consider what He has done.H120H3372H5046H6467H430H7919H463910The righteous man will be glad in the LORD, and will take refuge in Him; And all the upright in heart will glory.H6662H8055H3068H2620H3477H3820H1984