Malachi 3:13

In 11 translations

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 Yahweh. “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?

LSV

“Your words have been hard against Me,” said YHWH, || “And you have said, 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?'

DBY

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

DRC

Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.

GNV

Your wordes haue bene stout against me, sayeth the Lord: yet ye say, What haue 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?'

LXXE

Ye have spoken grievous words against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye said, Wherein have we spoken against thee?

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WLC

חָזְק֥וּ עָלַ֛י דִּבְרֵיכֶ֖ם אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם מַה־נִּדְבַּ֖רְנוּ עָלֶֽיךָ׃

LXX-Br

Ἐβαρύνατε ἐπʼ ἐμὲ τοὺς λόγους ὑμῶν, λέγει Κύριος· καὶ εἴπατε, ἐν τίνι κατελαλήσαμεν κατὰ σοῦ;

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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?”
• 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?”
• 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!
• 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,…
• 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.
• 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.”
• 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.
• Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
• 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.
• 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? So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you,…
• Job 34:7–8What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water? He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
• Isaiah 28:14–15Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem. For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes…
• Psalms 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
• Isaiah 5:19to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
• Malachi 3:8Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.

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