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DECEMBER 31
9 You are cursed with a curse, 4 “For behold, the day is coming,
For you have robbed Me, Burning like an oven,
Even this whole nation. And all the proud, yes, all who do
10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, wickedly will be stubble.
That there may be food in My house, And the day which is coming shall
And try Me now in this,” burn them up,”
Says the LORD of hosts, Says the LORD of hosts,
“If I will not open for you the windows “That will leave them neither root nor
of heaven branch.
And pour out for you such blessing 2 But to you who fear My name
That there will not be room enough to The Sun of Righteousness shall arise
receive it. With healing in His wings;
11 “And I will rebuke the devourer for And you shall go out
your sakes, And grow fat like stall-fed calves.
So that he will not destroy the fruit of
your ground,
Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for
you in the field,” 4:2 Sun of Righteousness. While the wicked
Says the LORD of hosts; will be devoured by the heat of the Lord’s wrath,
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And all nations will call you blessed, those who fear Him will feel His warmth with
For you will be a delightful land,” healing in His “rays”or “beams”(Is.30:26; 60:1,3).
Says the LORD of hosts. The reference is to the Messiah; He is “the Lord
“Your words have been harsh 1:30).healing.The reference should not be lim-
13 our Righteousness” (Ps. 84:11; Jer. 23:5,6; 1 Cor.
against Me,”
Says the LORD, ited to the physical recovery from the harm
done by the wicked (3:5).This sickness is inextri-
“Yet you say, cably linked with sin, with healing coming only
‘What have we spoken through the suffering of the Servant (Ps. 103:3;
against You?’ Is.53:5;57:18,19;1 Pet.2:24).
14 You have said,
‘It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His 3 You shall trample the wicked,
ordinance, For they shall be ashes under the soles
And that we have walked as mourners of your feet
Before the LORD of hosts? On the day that I do this,”
So now we call the proud blessed, Says the LORD of hosts.
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For those who do wickedness are 4
raised up; “Remember the Law of Moses,
They even tempt God and go free.’ ” My servant,
Which I commanded him in Horeb for
16 Then those who feared the LORD spoke all Israel,
to one another, With the statutes and judgments.
And the LORD listened and heard them; 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the
So a book of remembrance was written prophet
before Him Before the coming of the great and
For those who fear the LORD dreadful day of the LORD.
And who meditate on His name. 6 And he will turn
The hearts of the fathers to the children,
17 “They shall be Mine,” says the LORD of
hosts, And the hearts of the children to their
“On the day that I make them fathers,
My jewels. Lest I come and strike the earth with a
And I will spare them curse.”
As a man spares his own son who
serves him.” Psalm 150:1–6
18 Then you shall again discern raise the LORD!
Between the righteous and the wicked, P
Between one who serves God Praise God in His sanctuary;
And one who does not serve Him. Praise Him in His mighty firmament!

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