Book of Malachi
Has not one God created us?
Book of Malachi (Hebrew: מַלְאָכִ֔י, Malʾāḵī) is the last book of the Nevi'im contained in the Old Testament, canonically the last of the Twelve Minor Prophets. In the Christian ordering, the grouping of the Prophetic books is the last section of the Old Testament, making Malachi the last book before the New Testament.
Quotes
[edit]Chapter 2
[edit]- Have we not all one father, hath not one GOD created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
- NRSV, 2:10
Chapter 3
[edit]- I am coming to put you on trial and I shall be a ready witness against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers, and against those who oppress the wage-earner, the widow and the orphan, and who rob the foreigner of his rights and do not respect me, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
- NRSV, 3:5
- Will a man rob God?
- NRSV, 3:8
- Bring the tithes in full to the treasury, so that there is food in my house; put me to the test now like this, says Yahweh Sabaoth, and see if I do not open the floodgates of heaven for you and pour out an abundant blessing for you.
- NRSV, 3:10
- 'On the day when I act, says Yahweh Sabaoth, they will be my most prized possession, and I shall spare them in the way a man spares the son who serves him.
- NRSV, 3:17
Chapter 4
[edit]- 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 LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his sings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
- NRSV, 4:1-2
- Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 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 a curse.
- NRSV, 4:5-6
