Malachi 3:13

Doubt Praise and worship

¹¹ And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

¹² And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

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

¹⁴ Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

¹⁵ And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: “Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
KJV: 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 harsh against me,” says the LORD. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
ASV: Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
DARBY: Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah; but ye say, What have we been speaking against thee?
BLB: “Your⁺ words have been strong against Me,” says YHWH. “And you⁺ say, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

ÅB: Deres ord har vært sterke mot meg, sier Herren. Og dere sier: Hva har vi sagt oss imellom mot deg?
OTB: "Dine ord har vært sterke mot meg," sier Herren. "Likevel sier dere: 'Hva har vi talt så mye mot deg?'
B1930: Eders ord har vært sterke mot mig, sier Herren. Og I sier: Hvad har vi sagt oss imellem mot dig?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Malachi 2:17
Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
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Isaiah 37:23
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
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Romans 9:20
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
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Malachi 1:6–8
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
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2 Thessalonians 2:4
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
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2 Chronicles 32:14–19
Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?
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Exodus 5:2
And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
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Job 34:7–8
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
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