1 Look, I send forth my messenger, and he shall survey the way before my face:⁠a and the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come into his temple,⁠b even the angel of the covenant, whom you take pleasure in: look, he is coming, says the Lord Almighty. 2 And who will endure the day of his coming? or who will withstand at his appearing? for he is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of fullers. 3 He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness. 4 And the sacrifice of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the Lord, according to the former days, and according to the former years. 5 And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against those who swear falsely by my name, and against those who keep back the hired worker's wages, and those who oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that distort the judgment of the foreigner, and do not fear me, says the Lord Almighty. 6 For I am the Lord your God, and I am not changed: but you, the sons of Jacob, have not refrained 7 from the iniquities of your fathers: you have perverted my statutes, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord Almighty. But you said, In what way shall we return? 8 Will a man insult God? for you insult me. But you say, In what way have we insulted you? In that the tithes and first fruits are with you still. 9 And you do surely look off from me, and you insult me. The nation is completed. 10 And you have brought all the produce into the storehouses; but there shall be the plunder of it in its house: consider now in this, says the Lord Almighty, see if I will not open to you the torrents of heaven, and pour out my blessing upon you, until you are satisfied. 11 And I will appoint food for you, and I will not destroy the fruit of your land; and your vine in the field shall not fail, says the Lord Almighty. 12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a desirable land, says the Lord Almighty. 13 You have spoken harsh words against me, says the Lord. Yet you said, In what way have we spoken against you? 14 You said, The person who serves God labors in vain: and what have we gained in that we have kept his ordinances, and in that we have walked as people pleading for mercy before the face of the Lord Almighty? 15 And now we pronounce strangers blessed; and all they who act unlawfully are built up; and they have resisted God, and yet have been delivered. 16 Thus those who feared the Lord spoke, each to his neighbor: and the Lord paid attention, and listened, and he wrote a book of remembrance before him for those who feared the Lord and reverenced his name. 17 And they shall be mine, says the Lord Almighty, in the day which I appoint for my own possession; and I will make choice of them, as a man makes choice of his son that serves him. 18 Then you will return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, and between the person who serves God, and the person who does not serve him. 19 For, look, the day of the Lord comes burning as an oven, and it shall consume them; and all the aliens, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that is coming shall set them on fire, says the Lord Almighty, and there shall not be left of them root or branch. 20 But for you who fear my name the Sun of righteousness will rise, and healing shall be in his wings: and you shall go forth, and bound as young calves let loose from bonds. 21 And you shall trample the wicked; for they shall be ashes underneath your feet in the day which I appoint, says the Lord Almighty. 22 And, look, I will send to you Elijah the Tishbite, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes; 23 who shall turn again the heart of the father to the son, and the heart of a man to his neighbor, so that I do not come and strike the earth severely. 24 Remember the law of my servant Moses, accordingly as I charged him with it in Horeb for all Israel, even the commandments and ordinances.