Malachi 3:13

Your words have gathered strength over me, says the Lord.

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In The King James Version

Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

In Context

12And all nations will call you blessed. For you will be a desirable land, says the Lord of hosts.

14And you have said, “What have we spoken against you?” You have said, “He labors in vain who serves God,” and, “What advantage is it that we have kept his precepts, and that we have walked sorrowfully in the sight of the Lord of hosts?”

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:14Who is there, out of all the gods of the nations that my fathers destroyed, who is able to rescue his people from my hand, so that now also your God would be able to rescue you from this hand?

Job 34:7What man is there that is like Job, who drinks up derision as if it were water,

Isaiah 5:19and who say: “Let him hurry, and let his work arrive soon, so that we may see it. And let the plan of the Holy One of Israel approach and arrive, so that we may know it.”

Isaiah 37:23Whom have you insulted? And whom have you blasphemed? And against whom have you lifted up your voice and raised up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Ezekiel 35:13And you rose up against me with your mouth, and you disparaged against me with your words. I have heard.

Matthew Henry on Malachi 3:8-13

The Sins of the People; Encouragements to Repentance. ( b. c. 400.) 7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? 8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that… Read the whole commentary →

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