Malachi 3:13 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

"You have used harsh words against me," says the LORD. "You ask, 'How have we spoken against you?'(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?

DBY:

Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah; but ye say, What have we been speaking against thee?

ERV:

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

JPS:

Your words have been all too strong against Me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say: 'Wherein have we spoken against thee?'

WBS:

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

WEB:

"Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say,'What have we spoken against you?'

YLT:

Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: 'What have we spoken against Thee?'

Malachi 3:13 Cross References

XREF:

Malachi 3:12 "All the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a delightful land," says the LORD of hosts.

Malachi 3:14 "You have said, 'It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts? (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:13 Your words have been stout {m} against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken [so much] against thee?
(m) The Prophet condemns them of double blasphemy against God: first, in that they said that God had no respect for those that served him, and next, that the wicked were more in his favour than the godly.

MHC:

3:13-18 Among the Jews at this time, some plainly discovered themselves to be children of the wicked one. The yoke of Christ is easy. But those who work wickedness, tempt God by presumptuous sins. Judge of things as they will appear when the doom of these proud sinners comes to be executed. Those that feared the Lord, spake kindly, for preserving and promoting mutual love, when sin thus abounded. They spake one to another, in the language of those that fear the Lord, and think on his name. As evil communications corrupt good minds and manners, so good communications confirm them. A book of remembrance was written before God. He will take care that his children perish not with those that believe not. They shall be vessels of mercy and honour, when the rest are made vessels of wrath and dishonour. The saints are God's jewels; they are dear to him. He will preserve them as his jewels, when the earth is burned up like dross. Those who now own God for theirs, he will then own for his. It is our duty to serve God with the disposition of children; and he will not have his children trained up in idleness; they must do him service from a principle of love. Even God's children stand in need of sparing mercy. All are righteous or wicked, such as serve God, or such as serve him not: all are going to heaven or to hell. We are often deceived in our opinions concerning both the one and the other; but at the bar of Christ, every man's character will be known. As to ourselves, we have need to think among which we shall have our lot; and, as to others, we must judge nothing before the time. But in the end all the world will confess that those alone were wise and happy, who served the Lord and trusted in Him.

CONC:

Arrogant Says Speaking Spoken Stout Strong Wherein Yet

Arrogant Hard Harsh How Speaking Stout Strong Wherein Words

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