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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• ⁴[Be] marriage in all [things] held in honour, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. (Heb. 13:4)

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or, defraud.

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James 5:4• ⁴Behold, the hire of the labourers who reaped your fields, that is kept back of you crieth out, and the cries of those that reaped entered into the ears of Jehovah of hosts. (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; 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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Psa. 50:3‑6• ³Our God will come and not be silent:{HR}A fire before him shall devour,{HR}And around him it shall be very tempestuous.
⁴He calleth to the heavens from above{HR}And to the earth to judge his people.
⁵Gather unto me my saints making my covenant by sacrifice.
⁶And the heavens declare his righteousness for God [is] judge himself. Selah. (Psa. 50:3‑6)

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Psa. 96:13• ¹³Before Jehovah, for he cometh;{HR}For he cometh to judge the earth;{HR}He will judge the world in righteousness,{HR}And the peoples in his truth. (Psa. 96:13)

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Psa. 98:9• ⁹Before Jehovah, for he cometh to judge the earth;{HR}He will judge the world in righteousness{HR}And the peoples in equity. (Psa. 98:9)

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Ezek. 34:20‑22• ²⁰Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle, and between the lean cattle.
²¹Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
²²therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle. (Ezek. 34:20‑22)

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Heb. 10:30‑31• ³⁰For we know him that said, To me [is] vengeance; I will recompense, saith Jehovah; and again, Jehovah shall judge his people.
³¹Fearful [it is] to fall into a living God's hands. (Heb. 10:30‑31)

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James 5:8‑9• ⁸Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
⁹Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge standeth before the door. (James 5:8‑9)

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

a swift.

Mal. 2:14• ¹⁴Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: 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;{HR}O Israel, and I will testify unto (against) thee:{HR}God, thy God [am] I. (Psa. 50:7)

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

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Jer. 29:23• ²³because they have committed villainy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 29:23)

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Mic. 1:2• ²{i}Hear, 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!{/i} (Mic. 1:2)

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Matt. 23:14‑35• ¹⁴(Verse not included in this translation).
¹⁵{i}Woe 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.{/i}
¹⁶{i}Woe 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.{/i}
¹⁷{i}Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?{/i}
¹⁸{i}And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.{/i}
¹⁹{i}[Fools and] blind ones, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?{/i}
²⁰{i}He therefore that swears by the altar swears by it and by all things that are upon it.{/i}
²¹{i}And he that swears by the temple swears by it and by him that dwells in it.{/i}
²²{i}And he that swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him that sits upon it.{/i}
²³{i}Woe 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.{/i}
²⁴{i}Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the camel.{/i}
²⁵{i}Woe 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.{/i}
²⁶{i}Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become clean.{/i}
²⁷{i}Woe 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.{/i}
²⁸{i}Thus also ye, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.{/i}
²⁹{i}Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the just,{/i}
³⁰{i}and 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.{/i}
³¹{i}So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:{/i}
³²{i}and ye, fill ye up the measure of your fathers.{/i}
³³{i}Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?{/i}
³⁴{i}Therefore, 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;{/i}
³⁵{i}so 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.{/i} (Matt. 23:14‑35)

the sorcerers.

Lev. 20:6,10,27• ⁶And the soul that turneth to necromancers and to soothsayers, to go a whoring after them, I will set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
¹⁰{i}And 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.{/i}
²⁷{i}And 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.{/i} (Lev. 20:6,10,27)

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Deut. 5:11,17‑21• ¹¹{i}Thou shalt not idly utter the name of Jehovah thy God; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that idly uttereth his name.{/i}
¹⁷{i}Thou shalt not kill.{/i}
¹⁸{i}Neither shalt thou commit adultery.{/i}
¹⁹{i}Neither shalt thou steal.{/i}
²⁰{i}Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.{/i}
²¹{i}Neither 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{/i}. (Deut. 5:11,17‑21)

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

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Ezek. 22:6‑12• ⁶{i}Behold, the princes of Israel have been in thee to shed blood, each according to his power.{/i}
⁷{i}In 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.{/i}
⁸{i}Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my Sabbaths.{/i}
⁹{i}In 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;{/i}
¹⁰{i}in thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her separation.{/i}
¹¹{i}And 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.{/i}
¹²{i}In 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.{/i} (Ezek. 22:6‑12)

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Zech. 5:3‑4• ³Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: every one that stealeth shall be cut off {i}according to it on this side; and{/i} every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
⁴I will bring it 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 remain 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• ⁹What! know ye not that unjust [men] shall not inherit God's kingdom? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers of themselves as women, nor abusers of themselves with men,
¹⁰nor rapacious, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit God's kingdom. (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, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, bursts of passion, contentions, divisions, parties,
²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these, as to which I forewarn you, even as also I forewarned, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom. (Gal. 5:19‑21)

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Heb. 13:4• ⁴[Be] marriage in all [things] held in honour, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. (Heb. 13:4)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But for the cowardly and faithless and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part {i}shall be{/i} in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without {i}are{/i} the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

against those.

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

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Lev. 19:13• ¹³Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbour, nor 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• ¹⁴{i}Thou 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:{/i}
¹⁵{i}on 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.{/i}
¹⁷{i}Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, or of the fatherless; and thou shalt not take in pledge a widow's garment.{/i} (Deut. 24:14‑15,17)

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

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Prov. 22:22‑23• ²²Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor,{HR}Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
²³For Jehovah will plead their cause,{HR}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,{HR}And enter not into the fields of the fatherless;
¹¹For their redeemer [is] strong;{HR}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 chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; that saith,
¹⁴I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
¹⁵Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
¹⁶He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
¹⁷But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. (Jer. 22:13‑17)

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James 5:4,12• ⁴Behold, the hire of the labourers who reaped your fields, that is kept back of you crieth out, and the cries of those that reaped entered into the ears of Jehovah of hosts.
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 nay nay, lest ye fall under judgment. (James 5:4,12)

oppress.

or, defraud.

1 Thess. 4:6• ⁶that he should not over-reach and wrong his brother in the matter; because the Lord is an avenger in respect of all these things, even as we told you before and fully testified. (1 Thess. 4:6)

fear.

Gen. 20:11• ¹¹And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay 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 commanded them, but saved the male-children alive. (Ex. 1:17)

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Ex. 18:21• ²¹{i}But 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,{/i} (Ex. 18:21)

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

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Psa. 36:1• ¹To the chief musician; of the servant of Jehovah, of David.{HR}The transgression of the wicked saith in the innermost part of my heart,{HR}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:{HR}Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way,{HR}And the froward mouth do I hate. (Prov. 8:13)

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Prov. 16:6• ⁶By mercy and truth iniquity is purged;{HR}And by the fear of Jehovah they depart from evil. (Prov. 16:6)

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Luke 23:40• ⁴⁰But the other in answer rebuking him said, Dost not even thou fear God, because thou art in the same judgment? (Luke 23:40)

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Rom. 3:8• ⁸and not, even as we are slanderously reported, and even as some give out that we say, “Let us do evil that good things 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."

W. Kelly 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 false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.