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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 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 Jehovah 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 went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife. (Esther 5:10)
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Psa. 10:3• 3For the wicked [man] boasteth of his soul's desire;{HR}He blesseth the plunderer, he despiseth Jehovah. (Psa. 10:3)
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Psa. 49:18• 18Though (for) he blesseth his soul in his life,{HR}And men will praise thee when thou doest good to thyself, (Psa. 49:18)
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Psa. 73:12• 12Behold, these [are] wicked and prosperous forever;{HR}They increase in substance. (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 honour of my majesty?
37{i}Now 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.{/i}
(Dan. 4:30,37)
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Dan. 5:20‑28• 20{i}But 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;{/i}
21{i}and 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.{/i}
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; {i}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;{/i} and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.
24{i}then from before him was sent the part of the hand, and this writing hath been written.{/i}
25{i}And this is the writing that is written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.{/i}
26This is the interpretation of the thing. MENE, {i}God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it{/i};
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 Herod, arrayed in royal apparel and seated on the throne, made an harangue unto them. (Acts 12:21)
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1 Peter 5:5• 5Likewise, ye younger, be subject to elders; and all of you bind on humility to one another; because God setteth himself against haughty ones, and giveth grace to lowly. (1 Peter 5:5)
yea.
Mal. 2:17• 17Ye have wearied Jehovah 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 Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? (Mal. 2:17)
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Job 12:6• 6To the spoilers are the tents at peace,{HR}And those who provoke God have security —{HR}He who causeth God to enter into his hand. (Job 12:6)
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Job 21:7‑15,30• 7Why do the wicked live, become old,{HR}And mighty in wealth?
8Their seed is established with them in their sight,{HR}And their issues before their eyes.
9Their houses [are] peace, without fear,{HR}And the rod of God [is] not upon them.
10His bull gendereth, and faileth not,{HR}His cow calveth, and miscarrieth not.
11They send forth their sucklings as a flock,{HR}And their children frisk.
12They lift [their voice] to timbrel and harp,{HR}And rejoice at the sound of a pipe.
13They wear out their days in prosperity,{HR}And in a moment sink [to] Sheol.
14Yet they say to God, Depart from us,{HR}For we desired not the knowledge of thy ways:
15What [is] the Almighty that we should serve him?{HR}And what profit have we if we meet him?
30To a day of destruction the wicked is spared,{HR}To a day of great wrath they are led off.
(Job 21:7‑15,30)
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Prov. 12:12• 12The wicked desireth the net of evil [men];{HR}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,{HR}Even to explore all this,{HR}That the righteous, and the wise,{HR}And their works, are in the hand of God:{HR}Whether it be love or hatred,{HR}Man knoweth it not; all is before them.
2All things [come] alike to all:{HR}There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked;{HR}To the good, and to the clean and to the unclean;{HR}To him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not:{HR}As is the good, so is the sinner;{HR}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 Jehovah, 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.
they that tempt.
Num. 14:22‑23• 22{i}for 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,{/i}
23{i}shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.{/i}
(Num. 14:22‑23)
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Dan. 6:16• 16{i}Then 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.{/i} (Dan. 6:16)
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Psa. 78:18,41,56• 18And they tempted God in their hearts{HR}By asking food for their lust (souls).
41And they turned again and tempted God ,{HR}And limited the Holy One of Israel.
56But they tempted and resisted God Most High,{HR}And kept not his testimonies,
(Psa. 78:18,41,56)
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Psa. 95:9• 9When your fathers tempted me,{HR}Proved me, and saw my work. (Psa. 95:9)
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Psa. 106:14• 14And lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,{HR}And tempted God in the desert. (Psa. 106:14)
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Matt. 4:6‑7• 6{i}and 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.{/i}
7{i}Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt [the] Lord thy God.{/i}
(Matt. 4:6‑7)
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Acts 5:9• 9Then Peter said to her, How [is it] that ye agreed together to tempt the Spirit of [the] Lord? Behold, the feet of those that 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 the Lord, even as some of them tempted, and were perishing by the 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.