I am about to discipline your children and will spread offal on your faces, the very offal produced at your festivals, and you will be carried away along with it.

"I am about to send my messenger, who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming," says the Lord who rules over all.

You have said, 'It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all?

But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.