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Malachi 3:13

I, Yahweh, have something else to say to you. You have said terrible things about me.” But you reply, “What terrible things have we said about you?”

Translation for Translators

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

12When that happens, the people of all nations will say that I have blessed you, because your country will be delightful. That is what I, the Commander of the armies of angels, say.

14I reply, “You have said, ‘It is useless for us to serve God. We have gained nothing [RHQ] by obeying the commands that he gave to us and by trying to show the Commander of the armies of angels that we are sorry for the sins that we have committed.

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Cross References

Job 34:7◄Is there any person like Job, who insults others as easily as people accept a drink of water?/There is no person like Job, who insults others as easily as people accept a drink of water.► [RHQ]

Psalms 10:11Wicked people say, “God will not pay any attention to what we do. His eyes are covered, so he never sees anything.”

Isaiah 5:19They make fun of God and say to him, “Go ahead, do something to punish us! We want to see what you will do. You, the Holy One of Israel, should do what you are planning to do, because we want to know what it is.”

Isaiah 37:23Whom do you think you have been despising and ridiculing? Whom do you think you were shouting at? Whom do you think you were looking at very proudly/arrogantly? It was I, the Holy One whom the Israelis worship!

Ezekiel 35:13When you insulted me, I heard all that you said about me.

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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