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Mal. 3:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterersk, and against false swearers, and against those that ψoppress the hirelingl in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

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Heb. 13:4• ⁴Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge. (Heb. 13:4)

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or, defraud.

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James 5:4• ⁴Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. (James 5:4)

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Hireling; Hired Servant,

Sorcerer,

Stranger,

Wages,

Widow,

Witness

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I will come.

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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Psa. 50:3‑6• ³Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
⁴He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
⁵Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice!
⁶And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah. (Psa. 50:3‑6)

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Psa. 96:13• ¹³Before Jehovah, for he cometh; for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness. (Psa. 96:13)

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Psa. 98:9• ⁹Before Jehovah, for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity. (Psa. 98:9)

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Ezek. 34:20‑22• ²⁰Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto them: Behold, it is I, and I will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
²¹Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the weak ones with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad,
²²--I will save my flock, that they may no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. (Ezek. 34:20‑22)

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Heb. 10:30‑31• ³⁰For we know him that said, To me belongs vengeance; *I* will recompense, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall judge his people.
³¹It is a fearful thing falling into the hands of the living God. (Heb. 10:30‑31)

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James 5:8‑9• ⁸*Ye* also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is drawn nigh.
⁹Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door. (James 5:8‑9)

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Jude 14‑15• ¹⁴And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied also as to these, saying, Behold, the Lord has come amidst his holy myriads,
¹⁵to execute judgment against all; and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their works of ungodliness, which they have wrought ungodlily, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. (Jude 14‑15)

a swift.

Mal. 2:14• ¹⁴Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. (Mal. 2:14)

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Psa. 50:7• ⁷Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God. (Psa. 50:7)

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Psa. 81:8• ⁸Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me! (Psa. 81:8)

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Jer. 29:23• ²³because they have committed infamy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken words of falsehood in my name, which I had not commanded them: and I am he that knoweth, and am witness, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 29:23)

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Mic. 1:2• ²Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple! (Mic. 1:2)

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Matt. 23:14‑35• ¹⁴(Verse 14 is omitted in this translation.)
¹⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye compass the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when he is become such, ye make him twofold more the son of hell than yourselves.
¹⁶Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
¹⁷Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?
¹⁸And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.
¹⁹Fools and blind ones, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?
²⁰He therefore that swears by the altar swears by it and by all things that are upon it.
²¹And he that swears by the temple swears by it and by him that dwells in it.
²²And he that swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him that sits upon it.
²³Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith: these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside.
²⁴Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the camel.
²⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance.
²⁶Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become clean.
²⁷Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
²⁸Thus also *ye*, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
²⁹Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the just,
³⁰and ye say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
³¹So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:
³²and *ye*, fill ye up the measure of your fathers.
³³Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?
³⁴Therefore, behold, *I* send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;
³⁵so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. (Matt. 23:14‑35)

the sorcerers.

Lev. 20:6,10,27• ⁶--And the soul that turneth unto necromancers and unto soothsayers, to go a whoring after them, I will set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
¹⁰And a man that committeth adultery with a man's wife, who committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife,--the adulterer and the adulteress shall certainly be put to death.
²⁷And if there be a man or a woman in whom is a spirit of Python or of divination, they shall certainly be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood is upon them. (Lev. 20:6,10,27)

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Deut. 5:11,17‑21• ¹¹Thou shalt not idly utter the name of Jehovah thy God; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that idly uttereth his name.
¹⁷Thou shalt not kill.
¹⁸Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
¹⁹Neither shalt thou steal.
²⁰Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
²¹Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, nor his bondman, nor his handmaid, his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's. (Deut. 5:11,17‑21)

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Jer. 7:9‑10• ⁹What? steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not …
¹⁰then ye come and stand before me, in this house which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered,--in order to do all these abominations! (Jer. 7:9‑10)

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Ezek. 22:6‑12• ⁶Behold, the princes of Israel have been in thee to shed blood, each according to his power.
⁷In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
⁸Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
⁹In thee there have been slanderous men to shed blood; and in thee have they eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness;
¹⁰in thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her separation.
¹¹And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
¹²In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 22:6‑12)

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Zech. 5:3‑4• ³And he said unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole land: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off according to it on this side; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off according to it on that side.
⁴I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall lodge in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof. (Zech. 5:3‑4)

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1 Cor. 6:9‑10• ⁹Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,
¹⁰nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor. 6:9‑10)

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Gal. 5:19‑21• ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
²⁰idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,
²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom. (Gal. 5:19‑21)

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Heb. 13:4• ⁴Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge. (Heb. 13:4)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners, and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

against those.

Ex. 22:21‑24• ²¹Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.
²²Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
²³If thou afflict him in any way, if he cry at all unto me, I will certainly hear his cry;
²⁴and my anger shall burn, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. (Ex. 22:21‑24)

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Lev. 19:13• ¹³Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbour, neither rob him. The wages of the hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. (Lev. 19:13)

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Deut. 24:14‑15,17• ¹⁴Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners who are in thy land within thy gates:
¹⁵on his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and his soul yearneth after it; lest he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be a sin in thee.
¹⁷Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, or of the fatherless; and thou shalt not take in pledge a widow's garment. (Deut. 24:14‑15,17)

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Deut. 27:19• ¹⁹Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow! And all the people shall say, Amen. (Deut. 27:19)

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Prov. 22:22‑23• ²²Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
²³for Jehovah will plead their cause, and despoil the soul of those that despoil them. (Prov. 22:22‑23)

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Prov. 23:10‑11• ¹⁰Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
¹¹for their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee. (Prov. 23:10‑11)

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Jer. 22:13‑17• ¹³Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his upper chambers by injustice; that taketh his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not his earning;
¹⁴that saith, I will build me a wide house, and spacious upper chambers; and he cutteth out for himself windows; and it is wainscoted with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
¹⁵Shalt thou reign, because thou viest with the cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice? Then it was well with him.
¹⁶He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
¹⁷But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it. (Jer. 22:13‑17)

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James 5:4,12• ⁴Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
¹²But before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, that ye do not fall under judgment. (James 5:4,12)

oppress.

or, defraud.

1 Thess. 4:6• ⁶not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified. (1 Thess. 4:6)

fear.

Gen. 20:11• ¹¹And Abraham said, Because I said, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me for my wife's sake. (Gen. 20:11)

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Gen. 42:18• ¹⁸And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, that ye may live: I fear God. (Gen. 42:18)

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Ex. 1:17• ¹⁷But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt had said to them, but saved the male children alive. (Ex. 1:17)

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Ex. 18:21• ²¹But do thou provide among all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place them over them, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens, (Ex. 18:21)

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Neh. 5:15• ¹⁵But the former governors that were before me had been chargeable to the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver: even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God. (Neh. 5:15)

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Psa. 36:1• ¹To the chief Musician. A Psalm of the servant of Jehovah; of David. The transgression of the wicked uttereth within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes. (Psa. 36:1)

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Prov. 8:13• ¹³The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate. (Prov. 8:13)

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Prov. 16:6• ⁶By loving-kindness and truth iniquity is atoned for; and by the fear of Jehovah men depart from evil. (Prov. 16:6)

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Luke 23:40• ⁴⁰But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost *thou* too not fear God, thou that art under the same judgment? (Luke 23:40)

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Rom. 3:8• ⁸and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just. (Rom. 3:8)

• When the Lord appears He will come to reign in righteousness. Justice and judgment will be the habitation of His throne, and consequently sinners—those who refuse to submit to His royal sway—must be destroyed out of the land. (“Malachi 3” by E. Dennett)

• It is very interesting to notice, as unfolding the heart of God, those who are mentioned as drawing forth His compassion—the hireling, the widow, the fatherless, and the stranger. It is ever so in the Scriptures—that those who are lonely, sorrowful, or oppressed are the special objects of His tender mercy—those described in one of the psalms as the needy, the poor also, and him that hath no helper (Psa. 72). (“Malachi 3” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppressg the hired servant in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his righth, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "defraud." see Note, Lev. 6.2.

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Or "wrest the judgment of the stranger."