Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Malachi+004   Malachi 4 (ESV) The Great Day of the Lord 4 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But for you who fear my name, the sun of…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Malachi+003   Malachi 3 (ESV) 8 Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Malachi+002   Malachi 2 (ESV) Judah Profaned the Covenant 10 Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers? 11 Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Malachi+001   MALACHI INTRODUCTION The rebuilding of the temple under Zerubbabel and Joshua, inspired by the prophecies of Haggai and Zechariah, was completed in 516 BC. The new temple was meant to be the centerpiece of a community in which there was true justice and genuine worship. In this way Israel…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Zechariah+014   Zechariah 14 (ESV) The Coming Day of the Lord 1 Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. 2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Zechariah+013   Zechariah 13 (ESV) 1 “On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness. Idolatry Cut Off 2 “And on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Zechariah+012   Zechariah 12 (ESV) 1 The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him: 2 “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah. 3 On…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Zechariah+011   Zechariah 11 (ESV) 4 Thus said the Lord my God: “Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. 5 Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them. 6 For I will no longer have pity on the…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Zechariah+010   Zechariah 10 (ESV) 6 “I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on them, and they shall be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the Lord their God and I will answer them. 7 Then Ephraim shall…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Zechariah+009   Zechariah 9 (ESV) The Coming King of Zion 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10 I will cut off…