Shabbat Hagadol

This translation was taken from the JPS Tanakh

Malachi 3:4-24

⁴ Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of yore and in the years of old. ⁵ But [first] I will step forward to contend against you, and I will act as a relentless accuser against those who have no fear of Me: Who practice sorcery, who commit adultery, who swear falsely, who cheat laborers of their hire, and who subvert [the cause of] the widow, orphan, and stranger, said the Lord of Hosts.

⁶ For I am the Lord — I have not changed; and you are the children of Jacob — you have not ceased to be. 7 From the very days of your fathers you have turned away from My laws and have not observed them. Turn back to Me, and I will turn back to you — said the Lord of Hosts. But you ask, “How shall we turn back?” ⁸ Ought man to defraud God? Yet you are defrauding Me. And you ask, “How have we been defrauding You?” In tithe and contribution. ⁹ You are suffering under a curse, yet you go on defrauding Me — the whole nation of you. ¹⁰ Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, and let there be food in My House, and thus put Me to the test — said the Lord of Hosts. I will surely open the floodgates of the sky for you and pour down blessings on you; ¹¹ and I will banish the locusts from you, so that they will not destroy the yield of your soil; and your vines in the field shall no longer miscarry — said the Lord of Hosts. ¹²And all the nations shall account you happy, for you shall be the most desired of lands — said the Lord of Hosts.

¹³ You have spoken hard words against Me — said the Lord. But you ask, “What have we been saying among ourselves against You?” ¹⁴ You have said, “It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His charge and walking in abject awe of the Lord of Hosts? ¹⁵ And so, we account the arrogant happy: they have indeed done evil and endured; they have indeed dared God and escaped.” ¹⁶ In this vein have those who revere the Lord been talking to one another. The Lord has heard and noted it, and a scroll of remembrance has been written at His behest concerning those who revere the Lord and esteem His name. ¹⁷And on the day that I am preparing, said the Lord of Hosts, they shall be My treasured possession; I will be tender toward them as a man is tender toward a son who ministers to him. ¹⁸ And you shall come to see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him who has served the Lord and him who has not served Him.

¹⁹ For lo! That day is at hand, burning like an oven. All the arrogant and all the doers of evil shall be straw, and the day that is coming — said the Lord of Hosts — shall burn them to ashes and leave of them neither stock nor boughs. ²⁰ But for you who revere My name a sun of victory shall rise to bring healing. You shall go forth and stamp like stall-fed calves, ²¹ and you shall trample the wicked to a pulp, for they shall be dust beneath your feet on the day that I am preparing — said the Lord of Hosts.

²² Be mindful of the Teaching of My servant Moses, whom I charged at Horeb with laws and rules for all Israel.

²³ Lo, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before the coming of the awesome, fearful day of the Lord. ²⁴ He shall reconcile parents with children and children with their parents, so that, when I come, I do not strike the whole land with utter destruction.

Lo, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before
the coming of the awesome, fearful day of the Lord.

Taken from Tanakh, The Holy Scriptures, (Philadelphia, Jerusalem: Jewish Publication Society) 1985.
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