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The Lord will accept the gifts that the people of Judah and Jerusalem offer to him. He will be happy with them as he was in earlier times.

At that time, I will come among you as your judge. I will speak clearly against those who have done wrong things. I will punish the magicians, the adulterers and those who tell lies against other people. I will punish those people who are cruel to their workers, or they deceive widows or children who have no family. And I will punish those who do not help foreigners who live among them. People who do those things show that they do not respect me.’

That is what the Lord Almighty says.

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‘I am the Lord and I do not change. Because of my promises to my people, I have not destroyed you, descendants of Jacob.

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and the offerings(A) of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the Lord, as in days gone by, as in former years.(B)

“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers,(C) adulterers(D) and perjurers,(E) against those who defraud laborers of their wages,(F) who oppress the widows(G) and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners(H) among you of justice, but do not fear(I) me,” says the Lord Almighty.

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“I the Lord do not change.(J) So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.(K)

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