Malaki - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 659

MALAKI.

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will cramp your arm, and sprinkle dung on your faccs,-·—the dung of your festivals, and you shall be

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to you, that My Covenant should says the LORD OF Hosrs. ‘ My Covenant was with him, for

Life and Peace,-and I gave it to him openly, and he reverenced Me, and bowed before MY NAME. ‘ The Law of truth was in his mouth. No lie was found within his lips; He walked with Me in Peace and Right, And turned away from sin. So the lips of the Priest should guard knowledge, And the Law should be sought from his mouth ; For the Loma or Hosrs' Herald is he. ‘ But you have deserted the path, And made many sick of the Law; The Loan or Hosrs says, ‘ So, I have made you a contempt and scorn to the mass, Because you have kept not My paths, And hated to look at my Law} 3 Qznunrintinn nf {Rational @issnusi¤ns. Have we not all ONE FATHER?

Did not ONE GOD create us all ? Why do we each deceive his brother, break- ing the covenant of our forefathers? judah has betrayed, and depravity is practised in Israel, and in jerusalem. For judah has profaned the Sanc- tuary of the LORD, which He loves, for Bal, the Stranger of Bethel! The LORD will strike blind the

person who does that! But will answer from the Tents of jacob him who presents an offering tothe LORD OF HOSTS. Then you again make this pre·

tence; you weep at the Altar of the Lord with tears and sighs, because the LORD was a witness between you and the wife of your youth whom you deceived, although she is your com~ panion, and the wife of your bond. But not one has done it with a share of spirit in him. But why any one? GOD sought an heir. So take care of your spirit, and do not deceive the wife of your youth. For dismission is hateful, says the LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, and to cover wrong with a cloak, says the LORD OF Hosts.-—~So take care of your spirit, and do not deceive. You have wearied the LORD by your

? what have we wearied Him By your saying of all who do wrong, They are right in the sight of the

LORD, and He will be satisfied with

He accepts not the gift, and does not ¤ them,___0r where is the justice of accept pleasure from your hand. I GOD ? N —-Because myc Znrzrunnzr nf the Qurh. Behold! I send My Messenger To make a path before Me. The LORD that you seek, unexpected will enter into His Temple l of the Treaty you love ; But who can endure his entry? Who stand, when he searches? II. ' Like a fire He is to refiners, and like the soap to a fuller. He sits down to fuse and refine thereout the dross from the silver, And Levi’s sons he will cleanse, And refine like to silver and gold! 659 16