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Malachi 3

Mal. 3:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And now we call
'ashar (Hebrew #833)
a primitive root; to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy); figuratively, to go forward, be honest, proper
KJV usage: (call, be) bless(-ed, happy), go, guide, lead, relieve.
Pronounce: aw-shar'
Origin: or rasher {aw-share'}
the proud
zed (Hebrew #2086)
arrogant
KJV usage: presumptuous, proud.
Pronounce: zade'
Origin: from 2102
happy
'ashar (Hebrew #833)
a primitive root; to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy); figuratively, to go forward, be honest, proper
KJV usage: (call, be) bless(-ed, happy), go, guide, lead, relieve.
Pronounce: aw-shar'
Origin: or rasher {aw-share'}
; yea, they that work
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
wickedness
rish`ah (Hebrew #7564)
wrong (especially moral)
KJV usage: fault, wickedly(-ness).
Pronounce: rish-aw'
Origin: feminine of 7562
are πset up
banah (Hebrew #1129)
to build (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), X surely.
Pronounce: baw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
; yea, they that tempt
bachan (Hebrew #974)
to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate
KJV usage: examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).
Pronounce: baw-khan'
Origin: a primitive root
q God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
are even delivered
malat (Hebrew #4422)
properly, to be smooth, i.e. (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth young, emit sparks
KJV usage: deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, X speedily, X surely.
Pronounce: maw-lat'
Origin: a primitive root
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we call.
Mal. 4:1• 1For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (Mal. 4:1)
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Esther 5:10• 10But Haman controlled himself, and came home; and he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife. (Esther 5:10)
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Psa. 10:3• 3For the wicked boasteth of his soul's desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah. (Psa. 10:3)
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Psa. 49:18• 18Though he blessed his soul in his lifetime,--and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself,-- (Psa. 49:18)
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Psa. 73:12• 12Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches. (Psa. 73:12)
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Dan. 4:30,37• 30the king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
37Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of the heavens, all whose works are truth, and his paths judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
(Dan. 4:30,37)
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Dan. 5:20‑28• 20But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him;
21and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the Most High God ruleth over the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
22And thou, Belshazzar, his son, hast not humbled thy heart, although thou knewest all this;
23but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of the heavens; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy nobles, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
24then from before him was sent the part of the hand, and this writing hath been written.
25And this is the writing that is written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
26This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it;
27TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting;
28PERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
(Dan. 5:20‑28)
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Acts 12:21• 21And on a set day, clothed in royal apparel and sitting on the elevated seat of honour, Herod made a public oration to them. (Acts 12:21)
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1 Peter 5:5• 5Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble gives grace. (1 Peter 5:5)
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Mal. 2:17• 17Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, and ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? (Mal. 2:17)
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Job 12:6• 6The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke *God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth. (Job 12:6)
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Job 21:7‑15,30• 7Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
8Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them.
10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
12They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
13They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
14And they say unto *God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
15What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
30That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath.
(Job 21:7‑15,30)
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Prov. 12:12• 12The wicked desireth the net of evil men; but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit. (Prov. 12:12)
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Eccl. 9:1‑2• 1For all this I laid to my heart and indeed to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.
2All things come alike to all: one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
(Eccl. 9:1‑2)
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Jer. 12:1‑2• 1Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of thy judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?
2Thou hast planted them, they also have taken root: they advance, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins.
(Jer. 12:1‑2)
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Hab. 1:13‑17• 13Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on mischief: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and keepest silence when the wicked swalloweth up a man more righteous than he?
14And thou makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them.
15He taketh up all of them with the hook, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them into his drag; therefore he rejoiceth and is glad:
16therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; for by them his portion is become fat, and his meat dainty.
17Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?
(Hab. 1:13‑17)
set.
Heb. built.
they that tempt.
Num. 14:22‑23• 22for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,
23shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.
(Num. 14:22‑23)
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Dan. 6:16• 16Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will save thee. (Dan. 6:16)
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Psa. 78:18,41,56• 18And they tempted *God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
41And they turned again and tempted *God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.
56But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,
(Psa. 78:18,41,56)
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Psa. 95:9• 9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. (Psa. 95:9)
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Psa. 106:14• 14And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted *God in the desert. (Psa. 106:14)
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Matt. 4:6‑7• 6and says to him, If thou be Son of God cast thyself down; for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee, and on their hands shall they bear thee, lest in anywise thou strike thy foot against a stone.
7Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
(Matt. 4:6‑7)
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Acts 5:9• 9And Peter said to her, Why is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Lo, the feet of those that have buried thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee out. (Acts 5:9)
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1 Cor. 10:9• 9Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents. (1 Cor. 10:9)
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Heb. 3:9• 9where your fathers tempted me, by proving me, and saw my works forty years. (Heb. 3:9)
 they were charging God with identifying Himself with and favoring the proud and the wicked—proof of their utter deception as to their own condition, and of their ignorance of the character of God. (Malachi 3 by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape.