Malachi 3:9
7 Yet 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?’
8 Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.
10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
11 I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your land, and the vine in your field will not fail to produce fruit,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Dette ble sagt til Israel i en bestemt tid, så det er lurt å lese det sammen med teksten rundt. Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.
Sammenlign
- ÅB
- Forbannelsen har rammet dere, og fra meg raner dere, ja hele folket.
- OTB
- Dere er under en forbannelse, for dere har ranet fra meg, ja, hele dette folket.
- B1930
- Forbannelsen har rammet eder, og fra mig raner I, ja hele folket.
- BSB
- You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.
- KJV
- Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
- WEB
- You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
- ASV
- Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation.
- DARBY
- Ye are cursed with a curse; and me ye rob, [even] this whole nation.
- BLB
- With a curse you⁺ are cursed, and you⁺ are robbing Me—the nation—all of it.
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Deuteronomy 28:15–19
If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
Les i sammenhengMalachi 2:2
If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.
Les i sammenhengHaggai 2:14–17
Then Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every work of their hands; whatever they offer there is defiled.
Les i sammenhengHaggai 1:6–11
You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
Les i sammenhengJoshua 22:20
Was not Achan son of Zerah unfaithful regarding what was set apart for destruction, bringing wrath upon the whole congregation of Israel? Yet it was not only Achan who perished because of his sin!’”
Les i sammenhengIsaiah 43:28
So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”
Les i sammenhengJoshua 7:12–13
This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you whatever is devoted to destruction.
Les i sammenheng