¹Look, I am sending my messenger, and he will clear a way before me; and suddenly the lord whom you are seeking will come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight: look, he is coming, says Yahweh of hosts.

²And who provides the day of his coming, and who that stands in his appearing? For he is as the fire of the refiner, and as the launderers' washing.

³And he will dwell refining and purifying silver, and he will purify the children of Levi, and he will purify them as the gold and as the silver; and they will be to Yahweh ones who draw near a grain offering in the righteousness.

⁴And the grain offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to Yahweh, as the days of the forever, and as ancient years.

⁵And I will near to you to the justice, and I will be a witness, hastening in the sorcerers, and in the adulterers, and in those who swear an oath to the falsehood, and in those who defraud the payment of the contract of a hired man, the widow and the fatherless, and those who thrust aside a sojourner, and did not fear me, Yahweh of hosts said.

⁶For I am Yahweh, I do not change; and you, the children of Jacob, you were not completed.

⁷From the days of your fathers you removed from my statutes, and you did not keep them. Return to me, and I will return to you, Yahweh of hosts said. Yet you say, In what will we return?

⁸Will a man rob God? For you have robbed me. Yet you say, In what did we rob you? The tenth and the contribution.

⁹In the curse you are cursed, and me you are robbing, the nation, his all.

¹⁰Bring all the tenth to the house of the treasury, and let there be prey in my house; and test me in this, Yahweh of hosts said, if I will not open wide to you the windows of the skies, and muster to you blessing, in the without of the more.

¹¹And I will rebuke to you in the devourer, and it will not corrupt to you the fruit of the ground; and the vine will not miscarry to you in the field, Yahweh of hosts said.

¹²And all the nations will call you, for you will be a land of the delight, Yahweh of hosts said.

¹³Your words were strong over me, Yahweh said. Yet you say, What did we speak over you?

¹⁴You said, Vain is to serve God; and what profit, that we kept his duty, and that we went mourning from the face of Yahweh of hosts?

¹⁵And now we are calling the arrogant; also those who do wickedness are built up; also they tested God and were escaped.

¹⁶Then the fearing of Yahweh spoke, a man in his neighbor; and Yahweh heeded and heard, and a memorial record was written to his face, to the fearing of Yahweh and to those who esteemed his name.

¹⁷And they will be to me, Yahweh of hosts said, to the day which I am making, a treasured thing; and I will spare over them as a man will spare over his son that serves him.

¹⁸And you will return, and you will see between the righteous to the wicked, between one who serves God to which served it not.