RETURN UNTO ME AND I WILL RETURN UNTO YOU SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS

MALACHI 3:1-9 

BEHOLD, I WILL SEND MY MESSENGER, 

AND HE SHALL PREPARE 

THE WAY BEFORE ME: 

AND THE LORD,

 WHOM YE SEEK, 
SHALL SUDDENLY COME 

TO HIS TEMPLE, 
EVEN THE MESSENGER 

OF THE COVENANT, 

WHOM YE DELIGHT IN: 

BEHOLD, 

HE SHALL COME, 

SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS.
BUT WHO MAY ABIDE 

THE DAY OF HIS COMING? 

AND WHO SHALL STAND 

WHEN HE APPEARETH? 

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 LEVI, 
AND PURGE THEM 

AS GOLD AND SILVER, 
THAT THEY MAY OFFER 

UNTO THE LORD AN OFFERING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS.
THEN SHALL 

THE OFFERING OF 

JUDAH AND JERUSALEM  

BE PLEASANT UNTO THE LORD, 

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 THE ADULTERERS, 
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, 

SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS.
FOR I AM THE LORD, 

I CHANGE NOT; 

THEREFORE YE SONS OF JACOB 

ARE NOT CONSUMED.
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?
WILL A MAN ROB GOD? 

YET YE HAVE ROBBED ME. 

BUT YE SAY, 

WHEREIN HAVE WE ROBBED THEE? 

IN TITHES AND OFFERINGS.
YE ARE CURSED WITH A CURSE: 

FOR YE HAVE ROBBED ME, 

EVEN THIS WHOLE NATION. 

 

LOVE