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 ask, “How have we wearied Him?”

When you say, “Everyone who does what is evil is good in the Lord’s sight, and He is pleased with them,” or “Where is the God of justice?”

Our God is coming; He will not be silent!
Devouring fire precedes Him,
and a storm rages around Him.

before the Lord, for He is coming—
for He is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness
and the peoples with His faithfulness.

before the Lord,
for He is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world righteously
and the peoples fairly.

“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says to them: See, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

For we know the One who has said, Vengeance belongs to Me, I will repay,

and again, The Lord will judge His people.

You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.

And Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied about them:

Look! The Lord comes
with thousands of His holy ones

A swift

Yet you ask, “For what reason?” Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have acted treacherously against her, though she was your marriage partner and your wife by covenant.

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

Listen, My people, and I will admonish you.
Israel, if you would only listen to Me!

because they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with their neighbors’ wives and have spoken a lie in My name, which I did not command them. I am He who knows, and I am a witness.” This is the Lord’s declaration.

Listen, all you peoples;
pay attention, earth and everyone in it!
The Lord God will be a witness against you,
the Lord, from His holy temple.

[“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and make long prayers just for show. This is why you will receive a harsher punishment.]

The sorcerers

“Whoever turns to mediums

or spiritists and prostitutes himself with them, I will turn against that person and cut him off from his people.

Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses His name.

“Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?

“Look, every prince of Israel within you has used his strength to shed blood.

Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land, for every thief will be removed according to what is written on one side, and everyone who swears falsely will be removed according to what is written on the other side.

Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,

Now the works of the flesh are obvious:

sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,

Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

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

Against those

“You must not exploit a foreign resident or oppress him, since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

“You must not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages due a hired hand must not remain with you until morning.

“Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or one of the foreigners residing within a town in your land.

‘The one who denies justice to a foreigner, a fatherless child, or a widow is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Don’t rob a poor man because he is poor,
and don’t crush the oppressed at the gate,

Don’t move an ancient boundary marker,
and don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Woe for the one who builds his palace
through unrighteousness,
his upper rooms through injustice,
who makes his fellow man serve without pay
and will not give him his wages,

Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

General references

Do not commit adultery.

“You must not deny justice to a poor person among you in his lawsuit.

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, defiling yourself with her.

He will require the woman to drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her and cause bitter suffering.

Do not give dishonest testimony against your neighbor.

“Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or one of the foreigners residing within a town in your land.

‘The one who denies justice to a foreigner, a fatherless child, or a widow is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

For it is a fire that consumes down to Abaddon;
it would destroy my entire harvest.

They kill the widow and the foreigner
and murder the fatherless.

Should I not punish them for these things?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge Myself
on such a nation as this?

Instead, you act unjustly and cheat—and you do this to believers!