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Malachi 3:13 KJV
Malachi · chapter 3 · verse 13
Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?Malachi 3:13 · King James Version
Malachi 3:13 in context
11And 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.
12And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
13Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
14Ye 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?
15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wordsdâbâra wordH1697 →
- stoutchâzaqto fasten uponH2388 →
- saithʼâmarto sayH559 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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Among the people of the Jews at this time, though they all enjoyed the same privileges and advantages, there were men of very different characters (as ever were, and ever will be, in the world and in the church), like Jeremiah's figs, some very good and others very bad, some that plainly appeared to be the children of…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-18