Malachi 3:1
Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Exodus 23:20Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have prepared.
Psalms 110:1The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.
Isaiah 9:6For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 40:10Behold the Lord God shall come with strength, and his arm shall rule: Behold his reward is with him and his work is before him.
Hosea 12:3In the womb he supplanted his brother: and by his strength he had success with an angel.
Malachi 2:7For the lips of the priest shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts.
Matthew Henry on Malachi 3:1
In this chapter we have, I. A promise of the coming of the Messiah, and of his forerunner; and the errand he comes upon is here particularly described, both the comfort which his coming brings to his church and people and the terror which it will bring to the wicked, ver. 1-6 . II. A reproof of the Jews for their corrupting God's ordinances and sacrilegiously robbing him of his dues, with a charge to them to amend this matter, and a promise that, if they did, God would return in mercy to them, ver. 7-12 . III. A… Read the whole commentary →