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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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built.
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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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Ministry on This Verse

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we call.
Mal. 4:1• 1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (Mal. 4:1)
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Esther 5:10• 10Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, 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 heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth. (Psa. 10:3)
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Psa. 49:18• 18Though while he lived he blessed his soul: 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 ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. (Psa. 73:12)
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Dan. 4:30,37• 30The king spake, 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 honor of my majesty?
 37Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways 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 mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, 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 wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
 22And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
 23But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, 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 was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.
 25And this is the writing that was 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 upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. (Acts 12:21)
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1 Peter 5:5• 5Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. (1 Peter 5:5)
yea.
Mal. 2:17• 17Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? (Mal. 2:17)
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Job 12:6• 6The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. (Job 12:6)
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Job 21:7‑15,30• 7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
 8Their seed is established in their sight with them, 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 take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
 13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
 14Therefore 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 profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
 30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought 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 considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
 2All things come alike to all: there is 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; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. (Eccl. 9:1‑2)
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Jer. 12:1‑2• 1Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
 2Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and 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 iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
 14And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
 15They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
 16Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
 17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations? (Hab. 1:13‑17)
set.
Heb. built.
Job 22:23• 23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. (Job 22:23)
they that tempt.
Num. 14:22‑23• 22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
 23Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me 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. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver 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.
 41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
 56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, 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• 14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. (Psa. 106:14)
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Matt. 4:6‑7• 6And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
 7Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. (Matt. 4:6‑7)
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Acts 5:9• 9Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. (Acts 5:9)
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1 Cor. 10:9• 9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. (1 Cor. 10:9)
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Heb. 3:9• 9When your fathers tempted me, proved 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.