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title: "Commentary on Zechariah and Malachi"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "John Owen"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 109 of 109
url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-zechariah-and-malachi/109/
cite: "John Calvin, tr. John Owen, Commentary on Zechariah and Malachi, section 109. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-zechariah-and-malachi/109/"
---

# Commentary on Zechariah and Malachi

*John Calvin, tr. John Owen*

Calvin on the last two prophets of the Old Testament.

## 109. Chapter 3

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-zechariah-and-malachi/109/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-zechariah-and-malachi/109/#p-N

[¶0] 1 Behold I will send my messenger, And he will clear the way before me: And presently he shall come to his temple, The Lord whom ye seek, Even the messenger of the covenant whom ye desire; Behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts.

[¶1] 2 But who will endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears. For he will be like a purifying fire And like the herb of the fullers:

[¶2] 3 And he shall sit as the purifier and cleanser of silver, And he will cleanse the sons of Levi, And fuse them as silver and gold,

[¶3] 4 That they may offer to Jehovah An offering in righteousness; And acceptable to Jehovah Shall be the offering of Judah and Jerusalem, As in the days of old, as in former years.

[¶4] 5 I will also draw nigh to you for judgment, And will be a swift witness Against the sorcerers and the adulterers And those who swear to a falsehood, And who withhold the wages of the hireling, And wrong the widow, the orphan, and the stranger, And who fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

[¶5] 6 Because I am Jehovah, I change not; Therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

[¶6] 7 From the days of your fathers Ye have turned from my statutes and have not kept them; Return to me, and I will return to you, Saith Jehovah of hosts: But ye have said, How are we to return?

[¶7] 8 Will a man rob the gods? (585) But ye have robbed me: yet ye have said, In what have we robbed thee? In the tithes and in the offerings.

[¶8] 9 With a curse are ye cursed, For ye have robbed me, the whole of the nation.

[¶9] 10 Bring ye all the tithes to the store-house, And let there be food in my house; And prove me now by this, Saith Jehovah of hosts, Whether I will not open for you The windows of heaven, And draw out for you a blessing, Until there be a superabundance:

[¶10] 11 I will also restrain for you the devourer, That he may not destroy the fruit of your land; And not fruitless will be the vine for you in the field, Saith Jehovah of hosts.

[¶11] 12 Then blessed shall all nations call you, For ye shall be a land of delight, Saith Jehovah of hosts.

[¶12] 13 Strong against me have been your words, Saith Jehovah of hosts: But ye have said, In what have we spoken against thee? Ye have said, Vain it is to serve God,

[¶13] 14 And what profit is it, That we have kept his charge, And that we have walked humbly Before Jehovah of hosts:

[¶14] 15 And now happy we call the proud; yea, built up are they who do iniquity, And those who tempt God, and they are delivered.

[¶15] 16 Then spake those who feared Jehovah, Every one to his friend; And hearken did Jehovah and hear, And written was a book of remembrance Before him, for those who feared Jehovah And who thought on his name:

[¶16] 17 And they shall be to me, saith Jehovah of hosts, In the day which I appoint, a peculiar treasure; And I will spare them, As a man spares his son who serves him.

[¶17] 18 Then ye shall return and see the difference Between the righteous and the ungodly, Between him who serves God And him who does not serve him.

### Chapter 4

[¶19] 1 For behold the day! it comes burning as an oven And all the proud and all who do iniquity Shall be stubble; And burn them up shall the day that is coming, Saith Jehovah of hosts; For it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

[¶20] 2 But arise to you, who fear my name, Shall the sun of righteousness, With healing in its beams; And ye shall go forth and leap, Like fattened calves:

[¶21] 3 And ye shall tread down the ungodly, For they shall be dust under the soles of your feet, In the day which I appoint, Saith Jehovah of hosts.

[¶22] 4 Remember the law of Moses my servant Which I committed to him on Horeb, For all Israel, even the statutes and judgments.

[¶23] 5 Behold I send to you Elijah the prophet, Before it comes, the day of Jehovah, great and terrible;

[¶24] 6 And he shall turn the heart of fathers to their sons, And the heart of sons to their fathers; Lest I come and smite the land with a curse.