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Malachi 3:13

“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

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ASV

Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

KJV

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

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9 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
חָזְק֥וּcha.ze.Kuthey have been strongH2388 →
עָלַ֛י'a.Laion meH5921 →
דִּבְרֵיכֶ֖םdiv.rei.Khemwords yourH1697 →
אָמַ֣ר'a.Marhe saysH559 →
יְהוָ֑הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֕םva.'a.mar.Temand you sayH559 →
מַה־mah-what?H4100 →
נִּדְבַּ֖רְנוּnid.Bar.nuhave we spoken togetherH1696 →
עָלֶֽיךָ׃'a.Lei.khaon youH5921 →

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Malachi 2:17You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”Isaiah 37:23Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!Romans 9:20But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”Matthew 25:44And they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’1 Samuel 2:3Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.2 Thessalonians 2:4He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.Malachi 1:6–8“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’Job 15:13as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?Job 15:25For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,Malachi 3:7Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’Hosea 12:8And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”Malachi 2:14Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.Exodus 5:2But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”Jeremiah 8:12Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?Job 34:7–8What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?2 Chronicles 32:14–19Who among all the gods of these nations that my fathers devoted to destruction has been able to deliver his people from my hand? How then can your God deliver you from my hand?Psalms 12:3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.

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About Malachi

Ezra Reads the Law to the People — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Ezra Reads the Law to the People — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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