Malachi 3:13 Cross References - Rotherham

¹³ Stout against me, have been your words, saith Yahweh,––and yet ye say, What have we spoken, one to another, against thee?

² Then said Pharaoh, Who is Yahweh, that I should hearken to his voice, to let Israel go? I know not Yahweh, and certainly, Israel, will I not let go!

¹⁴ Who, among all the gods of these nations whom my fathers devoted to destruction, hath ever been able to deliver his people out of my hand,––that your god should be able to deliver you out of my hand? ¹⁵ Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah beguile you nor persuade you thus, neither do ye believe him. For no, god, of any nation or kingdom hath ever been able to deliver his people out of my hand, or out of the hand of my fathers,–how much less shall, your gods, deliver you, out of my hand? ¹⁶ And, yet more, spake his servants, against Yahweh, God,––and against Hezekiah his servant. ¹⁷ Letters, also wrote he, to scoff at Yahweh God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, Like the gods of the nations of the countries, who delivered not their people out of my hand, so, shall the god of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand. ¹⁸ Then cried they out, with a loud voice, in the Jews’ language, unto the people of Jerusalem who were upon the wall, to affright them, and to terrify them,––to the end they might capture the city. ¹⁹ And they spake against the God of Jerusalem,––as against the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of the hands of men.

⁷ What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water; ⁸ And is on the way to keep company, with the workers of iniquity, and to walk with lawless men.

⁸ Wilt thou even frustrate my justice? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest appear right?

¹¹ He hath said in his heart, GOD hath forgotten,––He hath veiled his face, Oh he hath never seen!

¹⁹ Who say––Let his work quicken––let it hasten, That we may see,––And let the purpose of Israel’s Holy One, draw near and come, That we may know!

¹⁴ Wherefore, hear ye the word of Yahweh, Ye men who scoff,––Ye rulers of this people that is in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Because ye have said––We have solemnised a covenant with death, And, with hades, have we effected a vision,––The overflowing scourge, when it sweepeth by, shall not reach unto us, For we have made lying, our refuge, And, in falsehood, have we hid ourselves.

²³ Whom, hast thou reproached, and insulted? And, against whom, hast thou lifted high thy voice? Yea thou hast proudly raised thine eyes, against the Holy One of Israel.

¹² Were they led to turn pale, because, an abominable thing, they had done? Nay! they did not, at all, turn pale, Nay! they did not so much as know how, to exhibit shame! Therefore, shall they fall among them who are falling, In the time when they are punished, shall they be overthrown, Saith Yahweh:

⁶ A son, will honour a father, and, a servant, his lord,–– If then, a father, I am, where is mine honour? And, if, a lord, I am, where is my reverence? saith Yahweh of hosts–– to you, ye priests, who despise my Name, and yet say, Wherein have we despised thy Name? ⁷ In bringing near upon mine altar, polluted food, while yet ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? Because ye say, As for the table of Yahweh, a thing to be despised, it is; ⁸ And when ye bring near the blind as a sacrifice, [saying]––No harm! or when ye bring near the lame or the sick [saying]––No harm! Offer it, I pray you, unto thy pasha, Will he accept thee? or lift up thy countenance? saith Yahweh of hosts.

¹⁴ Yet ye say, For what cause? Because, Yahweh, hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, with whom, thou, hast dealt treacherously, though, she, was thy consort, and thy covenant wife.

¹⁷ Ye have wearied Yahweh with your words, and yet ye say, Wherein have we been wearisome? When ye have said, Everyone who doeth wrong, is right in the eyes of Yahweh, and, in them, he hath taken delight, or, Where is the God of justice?

⁸ Will, a son of earth, defraud, God? Nevertheless, ye, have been defrauding me, and yet ye say, Wherein have we defrauded thee? In the tithe and the offering.

²⁰ O man! Who, nevertheless, art, thou, that art answering again unto God? Shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it––Why didst thou make me thus?

⁴ The one who opposeth and exalteth himself on high against every one called God, or an object of worship; so that he, within the sanctuary of God, shall take his seat, showeth himself forth, that he is, God:––