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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Malachi 3: 12 And all nations shall call you happy; for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 3: 13 Your words have been all too strong against Me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say: 'Wherein have we spoken against thee?'
Malachi 3: 14 Ye have said: 'It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked mournfully because of the LORD of hosts?
Malachi 3: 15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they try God, and are delivered.'
Malachi 3: 16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before Him, for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon His name.
Malachi 3: 17 And they shall be Mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in the day that I do make, even Mine own treasure; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Malachi 3: 18 Then shall ye again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not.
Malachi 4: 1 (3:19) For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall set them ablaze, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Malachi 4: 2 (3:20) But unto you that fear My name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall.
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