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King James Version

Malachi 3:9

Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Condescension of God;   Malachi;   Parsimony (Stinginess);   Thompson Chain Reference - Backsliding;   Curse, Divine;   Deterioration-Development;   Divine;   Generosity;   God;   Liberality;   Liberality-Parsimony;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Tithe;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Malachi;   Tithes;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Tithe, Tithing;   Work;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Malachi;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Malachi;   Suffering;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Malachi;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Messiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Tithes;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Malachi;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Nehemiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - John, the Baptize;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Law in the Old Testament;   Malachi;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anger;   Hafá¹­arah;   Tithe;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
In this way your whole nation has stolen things from me, so bad things are happening to you."
New American Standard Bible
"You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the entire nation of you!
New Century Version
So a curse is on you, because the whole nation has robbed me.
Update Bible Version
You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation.
Amplified Bible
"You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, this whole nation!
English Standard Version
You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.
World English Bible
You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and ye ben cursid in nedynesse, and alle ye folc disseyuen me, and `togidere fitchen.
English Revised Version
Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation.
Berean Standard Bible
You are cursed with a curse, yet you-the whole nation-are still robbing Me.
Contemporary English Version
That's why your whole nation is under a curse.
American Standard Version
Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation.
Bible in Basic English
You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.
Complete Jewish Bible
A curse is on you, on your whole nation, because you rob me.
Darby Translation
Ye are cursed with a curse; and me ye rob, [even] this whole nation.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye are cursed with the curse, yet ye rob Me, even this whole nation.
King James Version (1611)
Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye haue robbed me, euen this whole nation.
New Living Translation
You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me.
New Life Bible
You are cursed, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!
New Revised Standard
You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me—the whole nation of you!
Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye haue spoyled me, euen this whole nation.
George Lamsa Translation
You are cursed with curses, and yet you defraud me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
With a curse, have ye been cursing, and yet, me, have ye been defrauding, - the whole nation.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even the whole nation of you.
Revised Standard Version
You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me; the whole nation of you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye are cursed with a curse, & me haue ye spoyled, euen this whole nation.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye do surely look off from me, and ye insult me.
Good News Translation
A curse is on all of you because the whole nation is cheating me.
Christian Standard Bible®
You are suffering under a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing me.
Hebrew Names Version
You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
Lexham English Bible
You are being cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you!
Literal Translation
You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the nation, all of it.
Young's Literal Translation
With a curse ye are cursed! And Me ye are deceiving -- this nation -- all of it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore are ye cursed with penury, because ye dyssemble with me, all the sorte of you.
New English Translation
You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me—this whole nation is guilty.
New King James Version
You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even this whole nation.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!
Legacy Standard Bible
You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!

Contextual Overview

7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? 8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Malachi 2:2, Deuteronomy 28:15-19, Joshua 7:12, Joshua 7:13, Joshua 22:20, Isaiah 43:28, Haggai 1:6-11, Haggai 2:14-17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:16 - in the field Joshua 7:11 - stolen Proverbs 3:9 - General Isaiah 24:6 - hath Jeremiah 2:31 - Have I been Ezekiel 18:10 - that is Zechariah 5:3 - the curse Zechariah 8:11 - General Malachi 1:14 - cursed Matthew 4:4 - but Acts 5:2 - kept 1 Corinthians 9:11 - sown 1 Corinthians 16:2 - as God

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Genesis 3:17
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Genesis 3:21
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Genesis 4:9
And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
Genesis 11:5
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Genesis 16:8
And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye [are] cursed with a curse,.... Or "with penury", as the Vulgate Latin version; which, though not a proper rendering of the word, is the meaning of the curse they were cursed with; rain was withheld from them for their sins, and the earth did not bring forth its usual increase; wherefore there was want of food in all their land; their blessings were cursed, as in Malachi 2:2 for the following reason,

for ye have robbed me; because of this their iniquity, in not bringing their offerings to the Lord, and the tithes to the priests and Levites, their land was stricken with barrenness, and God gave them cleanness of teeth, and want of bread in all places: or, "but ye have robbed me" d; notwithstanding they were thus chastised of the Lord, yet were not reformed, but went on in withholding from God and the priests, what belonged to them:

[even] this whole nation; the sin was become general, and therefore a general judgment was inflicted on them: Grotius thinks, that the people seeing the priests withhold the tithes from the Levites, they refused to pay them to them, and so the sin became universal. Kimchi observes, that in other sins charged upon the nation, the people were not all alike guilty, but in this which respected the tithes and offerings they were.

d ואתי אתם קבעים "et tamen diripitis me", De Dieu.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye have been cursed with the curse - (not “with a curse”). The curse threatened had come upon them: but, as fore-supposed in Leviticus by the repeated burden, “If ye still walk contrary to Me,” they had persevered in evil. God had already shown His displeasure. But they, so far from being amended by it, were the more hardened in their sin. Perhaps as men do, they pleaded their punishment, as a reason why they should not amend. They defrauded God, under false pretences. They were impoverished by His curse, and so they could not afford to pay the tithes; as men say, “the times are bad; so we cannot help the poor” of Christ. “And Me ye still are defrauding” Me, ye; man, God. And that not one or other, but this whole people. It was a requital as to that, in which they had offended. “Because ye have not rendered tithes and first-fruits, therefore ye are cursed in famine and penury.” “Because the people did not render tithes and first-fruits to the Levites, the Lord saith, that He Himself suffered fraud, whose ministers, constrained by hunger and penury, deserted the temple. For, if He is visited by others in prison, and sick, is received and cared for, and, hungry and athirst, receives food and drink, why should He not receive tithes in His ministers, and, if they are not given, be Himself deprived of His portion?”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Malachi 3:9. Ye are cursed with a curse — The whole nation is under my displeasure. The curse of God is upon you.


 
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