Malachi 3:5

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Malachi 3:5

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Summary

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.

I will come

A swift

The sorcerers

Against those

General references

Bible References

I will come

You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied Him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and He delights in them,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”

May our God come and not keep silence;

Fire devours before Him,

And it is very tempestuous around Him.

Before the Lord, for He is coming,
For He is coming to judge the earth.

He will judge the world in righteousness

And the peoples in His faithfulness.

Before the Lord, for He is coming to judge the earth;
He will judge the world with righteousness
And the peoples with equity.

Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them, “Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.

It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones,

A swift

Yet you say, ‘For what reason?’ Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

“Hear, O My people, and I will speak;
O Israel, I will testify against you;
I am God, your God.

“Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you;
O Israel, if you would listen to Me!

because they have acted foolishly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives and have spoken words in My name falsely, which I did not command them; and I am He who knows and am a witness,” declares the Lord.’”

Hear, O peoples, all of you;

Listen, O earth and all it contains,

And let the Lord God be a witness against you,
The Lord from His holy temple.

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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

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The sorcerers

‘As for the person who turns to

mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear falsely, and

offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known,

“Behold, the rulers of Israel, each according to his power, have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood.

Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going forth over the face of the whole land; surely everyone who steals will be purged away according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears will be purged away according to the writing on the other side.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are:

immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.

Against those

“You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning.

“You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.

‘Cursed is he who distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Do not rob the poor because he is poor,

Or crush the afflicted at the gate;

Do not move the ancient boundary
Or go into the fields of the fatherless,

“Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness
And his upper rooms without justice,
Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay
And does not give him his wages,

Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

General references

“You shall not commit adultery.

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.

You shall not have intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her.

Then he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings a curse, so that the water which brings a curse will go into her and cause bitterness.

‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

“You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.

‘Cursed is he who distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

“For it would be fire that consumes to

Abaddon,

And would uproot all my increase.

They slay the widow and the stranger
And murder the orphans.

‘Shall I not punish these people?’ declares the Lord,
‘On a nation such as this
Shall I not avenge Myself?’

On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brethren.