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Malachi 3

Mal. 3:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ye are cursed
'arar (Hebrew #779)
to execrate
KJV usage: X bitterly curse.
Pronounce: aw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
with a curse
merah (Hebrew #3994)
an execration
KJV usage: curse.
Pronounce: meh-ay-raw'
Origin: from 779
: for ye have robbed
qaba` (Hebrew #6906)
to cover, i.e. (figuratively) defraud
KJV usage: rob, spoil.
Pronounce: kaw-bah'
Origin: a primitive root
me, even this whole nation
gowy (Hebrew #1471)
apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: go'-ee
Origin: rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}
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Cross References

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Mal. 2:2• 2If ye do not hear, and if ye do not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will even send the curse among you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have already cursed them, because ye do not lay it to heart. (Mal. 2:2)
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Deut. 28:15‑19• 15But it shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to take heed to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee.
 16Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
 17Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
 18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep.
 19Cursed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and cursed shalt thou be in thy going out. (Deut. 28:15‑19)
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Josh. 7:12‑13• 12And the children of Israel shall not be able to stand before their enemies: they shall turn their backs before their enemies, for they have made themselves accursed. I will no more be with you, except ye destroy the accursed thing from your midst.
 13Rise up, hallow the people, and say, Hallow yourselves for to-morrow; for thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, Israel: thou shalt not be able to stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from your midst. (Josh. 7:12‑13)
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Josh. 22:20• 20Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing? and wrath fell on all the assembly of Israel, and he perished not alone in his iniquity. (Josh. 22:20)
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Isa. 43:28• 28And I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the ban, and Israel to reproaches. (Isa. 43:28)
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Hag. 1:6‑11• 6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but are not satisfied; ye drink, but are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages for a bag with holes.
 7Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
 8Go up to the mountain and bring wood, and build the house, and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Jehovah.
 9Ye looked for much, and behold it was little; and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Wherefore? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, whilst ye run every man to his own house.
 10Therefore over you the heavens withhold their dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.
 11And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon man, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands. (Hag. 1:6‑11)
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Hag. 2:14‑17• 14Then answered Haggai and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith Jehovah, and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
 15And now, I pray you, consider from this day and onward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah,
 16--before those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the vat to draw out fifty press-measures, there were but twenty.
 17I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; and ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah. (Hag. 2:14‑17)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Ye are cursed with a curse; and me ye rob, even this whole nation.