MALACHI. The priests and people reproved. Of irreligion and profaneness. for ever. 3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and 5 And your eyes spread dung upon your faces, even the say, The LORD will be magnified from the take you away with it. and see, ye shall dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall border of Israel. shall 6 A son honoureth his father, and a this commandment unto you, that my 4 And ye shall know that I have sent servant his master: if then I be a father, covenant might be with Levi, saith the where is mine honour? and if I be a mas- LORD of hosts. ter, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, Ŏ priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? peace; and I gave them to him for the 5 My covenant was with him of life and fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. 7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we pol-and iniquity was not found in his lips: he 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, luted thee? In that ye say, The table of walked with me in peace and equity, and the LORD is contemptible. 8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, did turn many away from iniquity. is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and knowledge, and they should seek the law 7 For the priest's lips should keep sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy at his mouth: for he is the messenger of governor; will he be pleased with thee, the LORD of hosts. or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts. 8 But ye are departed out of the way: 9 And now, I pray you, beseech God law; ye have corrupted the covenant of ye have caused many to stumble at the that he will be gracious unto us: this hath Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. been by your means: will he regard your] persons? saith the LORD of hosts. 9 Therefore have I also made you con10 Who is there even among you that according as ye have not kept my ways, temptible and base before all the people, would shut the doors for nought? neither but have been partial in the law. do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. 10 Have we not all one father? hath not I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD one God created us? why do we deal of hosts, neither will I accept an offering treacherously every man against his broat your hand. 11 For from the rising of the sun even fathers? ther, by profaning the covenant of our unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in and an abomination is committed in Israel 11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, every place incense shall be offered unto and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath promy name, and a pure offering: for my faned the holiness of the LORD which he name shall be great among the heathen, loved, and hath married the daughter of a saith the LORD of hosts. strange god. 12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible. doeth this, the master and the scholar, out 12 The LORD will cut off the man that of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that 13 Ye said also, Behold, what a wearioffereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts. ness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith ing the altar of the LORD with tears, with 13 And this have ye done again, coverthe LORD of hosts; and ye brought that weeping, and with crying out, insomuch which was torn, and the lame, and the that he regardeth not the offering any sick; thus ye brought an offering: should more, or receiveth it with good will at your I accept this of your hand? saith the hand. LORD. 14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because 14 But cursed be the deceiver, which the LORD hath been witness between thee hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and and the wife of thy youth, against whom sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she for I am a great King, saith the LORD of thy companion, and the wife of thy covehosts, and my name is dreadful among the nant. heathen. CHAP. II. 15 And did not he make one? Yet had ND now, O ye priests, this command-fore one? That he might seek a godly he the residue of the Spirit. And wherement is for you. seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit. Am 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not and let none deal treacherously against the lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, wife of his youth. saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your saith, that he hateth putting away: for one 16 For the LORD, the God of Israel. blessings; yea, I have cursed them alrea-covereth violence with his garment, saith dy, because ye do not lay it to heart. the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to Majesty and grace of Christ. CHAP. III, IV. Elijah's coming and office. your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. vine cast her fruit before the time in the 17 Ye have wearied the LORD with field, saith the LORD of hosts. your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have 12 And all nations shall call you blesswe wearied him? When ye say, Every ed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, one that doeth evil is good in the sight of saith the LORD of hosts. the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, 13 Your words have been stout Where is the God of judgment? against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against CHAP. III. BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, thee? and he shall prepare the way before 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall God: and what profit is it that we have suddenly come to his temple, even the kept his ordinance, and that we have messenger of the covenant, whom ye de- walked mournfully before the LORD of light in: behold, he shall come, saith the hosts? LORD of hosts. 15 And now we call the proud happy; 2 But who may abide the day of his yea, they that work wickedness are set coming? and who shall stand when he ap- up; yea, they that tempt God are even depeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and livered. like fullers' soap. 16 ¶ Then they that feared the LORD 3 And he shall sit as a refiner and puri- spake often one to another: and the LORD fier of silver: and he shall purify the sons hearkened, and heard it: and a book of of Levi, and purge them as gold and sil- remembrance was written before him for ver, that they may offer unto the LORD an them that feared the LORD, and that offering in righteousness. thought upon his name. 4 Then shall the offering of Judah and 17 And they shall be mine, saith the Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as LORD of hosts, in that day when I make in the days of old, and as in former years. up my jewels; and I will spare them, as 5 And I will come near to you to judg-a man spareth his own son that serveth ment: and I will be a swift witness against him. the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, 18 Then shall ye return and discern and against false swearers, and against between the righteous and the wicked, those that oppress the hireling in his between him that serveth God and him wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that serveth him not. that turn aside the stranger from his FOR CHAP. IV. right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of OR behold, the day cometh, that shall hosts. burn as an oven; and all the proud, 6 For I am the LORD, I change not; yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be therefore ye sons of Jacob are not con- stubble: and the day that cometh shall sumed. burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 7¶ Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, 2 But unto you that fear my name, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD shall the Sun of righteousness arise with of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we healing in his wings; and ye shall go return? forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have 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. 4 ¶ Remember ye the law of Moses my 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the store-servant, which I commanded unto him in house, that there may be meat in mine Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and house, and prove me now herewith, saith judgments. 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you 5¶ Behold, I will send you Elijah the the windows of heaven, and pour you out prophet before the coming of the great a blessing, that there shall not be room and dreadful day of the LORD: enough to receive it. 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fa 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for thers to the children, and the heart of the your sakes, and he shall not destroy the children to their fathers, lest I come and fruits of yourground; neither shall your smite the earth with a curse. 705 THE END OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. 0 0 1,4 Farthing (Assarium) 20th Den. 3000 341 10 4,3 Mite, Note.-Silver is here reckoned at 5s. sterling. A TABLE OF TIME. 5464 5 8,6 1 110,3 of of 0,4 Gold at 41. per oz. Hours of the Day. Watches. 1st day of the week, Sunday. 2d day, 3d day, 4th day, 5th day, 6th day, 7th, or Sabbath, The day, reckoning The 1st watch, from sunset to The 3d watch, or cock-crowing, from the 6th to the 9th. The 4th, or morning watch, from the 9th hour to sunrise. THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST: TRANSLATED OUT ON THE ORIGINAL GREEK; AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED. STEREOTYPE EDITION. NEW-YORK: STEREOTYPED BY E. AND J. WHITE, FOR "THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY." 1818. Wood Miss Elizabeth lerod did April 24ck. 1037, Aged 77 yrs Be Katherine Coates Whipple, was born in 丝 Charlestown, Marfachusetts Out 4 th 1821 Maried to Jaert Schnapp of Alsace, From Oct 114 1850 Jacot Ichnopp. Died at Nowork bolley Singa County State of N. York Sept 21 #1889 aged 75 Yes. Born Oct 25th 1814-In Vilose |