For I am the Lord: I change not, and ye sons of Jacob [a]are not consumed.

From the days of your fathers, ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them: [b]return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts: but ye said, Wherein shall we return?

Will a [c]man spoil his gods? yet have ye spoiled me: but ye say, Wherein have we spoiled thee? In [d]tithes and offerings.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 3:6 They murmured against God, because they saw not his help ever present to defend them: and therefore he accuseth them of ingratitude, and showeth that in that they are not daily consumed, it is a token, that he doth still defend them, and so his mercy toward them never changeth.
  2. Malachi 3:7 Read Zech. 1:3.
  3. Malachi 3:8 There are none of the heathen so barbarous, that will defraud their gods of their honor, or deal deceitfully with them.
  4. Malachi 3:8 Whereby the service of God should have been maintained, and the Priests and the poor relieved.

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