fruit before the time in the field, saith the L
ORD
of hosts.
12
And all nations shall call you blessed:
for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the L
ORD
of hosts.
13
Your words have been stout against me, saith the L
ORD
. Yet ye say, What have we spoken
so
much
against thee?
14
Ye have said, It
is
vain to serve God: and what profit
is it
that we have kept
his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the L
ORD
of hosts?
15
And now we call
the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea,
they that
tempt God are even
delivered.
16
Then they that feared the L
ORD
spake often one to another: and the L
ORD
hearkened, and heard
it,
and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the L
ORD
, and that
thought upon his name.
17
And they shall be mine, saith the L
ORD
of hosts, in that day when I make
up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
18
Then shall
ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and
him that serveth him not.
CHAPTER 4
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do
wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the L
ORD
of hosts,
that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings;
and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
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 L
ORD
of hosts.
4
Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all
Israel,
with
the statutes and judgments.
5
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of
the L
ORD
:
6
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children
to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
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