17 You have ^fwearied the Lord with your ^gwords. ^hBut you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, ⁱ“Where is the God of justice?”

1 ^j“Behold, I send my messenger, and ^khe will ^lprepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. 2 But ^mwho can endure the day of his coming, and ⁿwho can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. 3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them ^olike gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.¹ 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years.

5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the ^psorcerers, against the ^qadulterers, against those who ^rswear falsely, against those who ^soppress the hired worker in his wages, the ^twidow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the ^usojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

6 “For I the Lord ^vdo not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.