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Malachi 4:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers.  Otherwise, I will come and strike the land  with a curse.’

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but he will judge the poor righteously and execute justice for the oppressed of the land. He will strike the land with a sceptre  from his mouth, and he will kill the wicked with a command  from his lips.


All Israel has broken your law and turned away,  refusing to obey you. The promised curse  written in the law of Moses,  the servant of God, has been poured out on us because we have sinned against him.


A sharp  sword  came from his mouth, so that he might strike the nations with it.  He will rule  them with an iron rod.  He will also trample the winepress of the fierce anger of God,  the Almighty.


And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,


You will leave your name behind as a curse for my chosen ones, and the Lord God will kill you; but he will give his servants another name.


to proclaim the year of the  Lord’s favour, and the day of our God’s vengeance; to comfort  all who mourn,


and there will no longer be any curse.  The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will worship him.


This will be the plague with which the Lord strikes all the people who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.


I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle.  The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.


In the whole land – this is the  Lord’s declaration – two-thirds  will be cut off and die, but a third will be left in it.


Then he said to me, ‘This is the curse  that is going out over the whole land, for everyone who is a thief, contrary to what is written on one side, has gone unpunished,  and everyone who swears falsely, contrary to what is written on the other side, has gone unpunished.


So I defiled the officers of the sanctuary, and set Jacob apart for destruction and Israel for scorn.


Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants have become guilty; the earth’s inhabitants have been burned, and only a few survive.


Then Peter  remembered and said to him, ‘Rabbi,  look! The fig tree that you cursed  has withered.’


The king   was enraged, and he sent out his troops, killed those murderers, and burned down their city.


Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. ‘Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbour and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not rescue it from their hand.’


But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and at the end will be burned.


A voice of one crying out: Prepare the way of the  Lord in the wilderness; make a straight road for our God in the desert.





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