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Malachi 3:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will rebuke the devourer  , for you, so that it will not ruin the produce of your land and your vine in your field will not fail to produce fruit,’ says the Lord of Armies.

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I  will provide rain for your land in the proper time, the autumn and spring rains,  and you will harvest your grain, new wine, and fresh oil.


Don’t be afraid, wild animals, for the wilderness pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and grapevine yield their riches.


‘For they will sow in peace: the vine will yield its fruit, the land will yield its produce, and the skies will yield their dew. I will give the remnant of this people all these things as an inheritance.


I will drive the northerner far from you and banish him to a dry and desolate land, his front ranks into the Dead Sea, and his rear guard into the Mediterranean Sea. His stench will rise; yes, his rotten smell will rise, for he has done astonishing things.


What the devouring locust  has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust  has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust  has eaten.


I struck you #– #all the work of your hands #– #with blight, mildew,  and hail,  but you didn’t turn to me #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.


I struck you with blight and mildew; the locust devoured your many gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and olive trees, yet you did not return to me. This is the  Lord’s declaration.


Though the fig tree does not bud and there is no fruit on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the flocks disappear from the pen and there are no herds in the stalls,


The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate,  the date palm,  and the apple   – all the trees of the orchard #– #have withered. Indeed, human joy has dried up.


‘I will gather them and bring them to an end.’  , This is the  Lord’s declaration. ‘There will be no grapes on the vine, no figs on the fig tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.’


It has devastated my grapevine and splintered my fig tree. It has stripped off its bark and thrown it away; its branches have turned white.


On that day I will respond   – this is the  Lord’s declaration. I will respond to the sky, and it will respond to the earth.


I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust ate, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust – my great army that I sent against you.


I have summoned a drought on the fields and the hills, on the grain, new wine, fresh oil, and whatever the ground yields, on people and animals, and on all that your hands produce.’





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