BESEACH GOD THAT HE WILL BE GRACIOUS UNTO US
MALACHI 1:4-14
A SON HONOURETH HIS FATHER,
AND
A SERVANT HIS MASTER:
IF THEN I BE A FATHER,
WHERE IS MINE HONOUR?
AND
IF I BE A MASTER,
WHERE IS MY FEAR?
SAITH
THE LORD OF HOSTS UNTO YOU,
O PRIESTS,
THAT DESPISE MY NAME.
AND YE SAY,
WHEREIN HAVE
WE DESPISED THY NAME?
YE OFFER POLLUTED
YE OFFER POLLUTED
BREAD UPON MINE ALTAR;
AND YE SAY,
WHEREIN HAVE
WE POLLUTED THEE?
IN THAT YE SAY,
THE
TABLE OF
THE LORD IS CONTEMPTIBLE.
AND
AND
IF YE OFFER
IS IT NOT EVIL?
AND IF YE OFFER
IS IT NOT EVIL?
OFFER IT NOW UNTO
WILL HE BE
PLEASED WITH THEE,
OR ACCEPT THY PERSON?
SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS.
AND NOW,
AND NOW,
I PRAY YOU,
BESEECH GOD THAT
HE WILL BE GRACIOUS
UNTO US:
THIS HATH BEEN
BY YOUR MEANS:
WILL HE REGARD
YOUR PERSONS?
SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS.
WHO IS THERE EVEN
WHO IS THERE EVEN
AMONG YOU THAT WOULD
SHUT THE DOORS
FOR NOUGHT? NEITHER DO
YE KINDLE FIRE ON MINE
ALTAR FOR NOUGHT.
I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN YOU,
SAITH
THE LORD OF HOSTS,
NEITHER WILL
I ACCEPT AN OFFERING
AT YOUR HAND.
FOR FROM
FOR FROM
AND IN EVERY PLACE
SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS.
BUT YE HAVE PROFANED IT,
BUT YE HAVE PROFANED IT,
IN THAT YE SAY,
THE TABLE OF THE
LORD IS POLLUTED;
AND
EVEN HIS MEAT,
IS CONTEMPTIBLE.
YE SAID ALSO, BEHOLD,
YE SAID ALSO, BEHOLD,
WHAT
A WEARINESS IS IT!
AND
YE HAVE SNUFFED AT IT,
SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS;
AND
YE BROUGHT THAT
WHICH WAS TORN,
AND
THE LAME,
AND
THE SICK;
THUS YE BROUGHT AN OFFERING:
SHOULD
I ACCEPT THIS OF YOUR HAND?
SAITH THE LORD.
BUT
BUT
WHICH HATH
IN HIS FLOCK A MALE,
AND VOWETH,
AND SACRIFICETH
UNTO
THE LORD A CORRUPT THING:
FOR
I AM A GREAT KING,
SAITH
THE LORD OF HOSTS,
AND
MY NAME IS DREADFUL
AMONG THE HEATHEN.
LOVE

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