Malachi 1:9 Cross References - Thomson

⁹ Now then do you conciliate the favour of your God when you supplicate him? When such [offerings] are made by your hands, shall I for your sakes accept your persons? saith the Lord Almighty.

¹¹ Upon which Moses made supplication before the Lord God and said, Shouldst thou, Lord, be provoked to wrath against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with thine uplifted arm,

²⁷ Then the priests, the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer reached his holy was heard, and their prayer reached his holy habitation, even heaven.

¹⁹ but did Ezekias and all Juda put him to death? No. Because they feared the Lord; and because they intreated the favour of the Lord: therefore the Lord refrained from the evils which he had denounced against them. Now as for us, we have committed great evils against our souls.

¹⁸ If they are prophets; if the word of the Lord is in them, let them meet me. For thus saith the Lord, Even the residue of the vessels which the king of Babylon did not take when he carried away Jechonias from Jerusalem, shall go to Babylon, saith the Lord.

¹⁹ Arise, chant praise in the night at setting thy watch. Pour out thy heart like water before the Lord; lift up thy hands to him for the life of thine infants, who are perishing with hunger at the head of every street.

¹³ gird yourselves, ye priests, and lament bitterly: sing the song of Woe, ye who minister at the altar; go in and sleep in sackcloth, ye ministers of God. Because sacrifice and libation are withheld from the house of your God. ¹⁴ Set apart a fast; proclaim a solemn service; assemble the elders; all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of your God, and cry to the Lord incessantly,

¹⁷ At the foot of the altar, let the priests who minister to the Lord, weep, and say, Spare, Lord, thy people; and give not up thy heritage to reproach; for the nations to rule over them. That they may not say among the nations, "Where is their God?"

¹ Then the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan stood at his right hand to oppose him. ² And the Lord said to Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, Satan! even the Lord who hath chosen Jerusalem, rebuke thee! lo! is not this like a brand snatched from fire? ³ [Now Jesus was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel.] ⁴ Then [the Lord] addressing them who stood before him, spoke, saying, Take away from him those filthy garments; [and to him he said, Behold I have taken away thy transgressions] and clothe ye him with a flowing robe ⁵ and put on his head a clean mitre. And when they had put a clean mitre on his head and clothed him, then the angel of the Lord stood up.

³¹ Now we know that God hearkeneth not to sinners; but if any one be a worshipper of God, and do his will, to him he hearkeneth.

¹⁵ Upon which the evil spirit in reply said, Jesus I know, and I have some knowledge of Paul: but who are ye? ¹⁶ Then the man, in whom was the evil spirit, springing upon them, and getting a mastery over them, prevailed against them so that they fled out of his house naked and wounded.

¹¹ For with God there is no respect of persons.

²⁶ For it suited us to have such a chief priest"one holy, innocent, undefined, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens, ²⁷ who is not under a daily necessity [as the chief priests are,] of offering sacrifices first for his own sins, and then for those of the people; for this he did once for all when he offered up himself.

¹⁷ And since you invoke, as father, him who without respect of persons judgeth every one according to his work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear;