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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 observe 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• 12Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed. I will no more be with you, except ye destroy the accursed thing from your midst.
 13Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus saith Jehovah God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you. (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• 28Therefore I profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and made Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling. (Isa. 43:28)
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Hag. 1:6‑11• 6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into 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, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? said Jehovah of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
 10Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her 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 men, 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 thereon is unclean.
 15And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah:
 16since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the press-fat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
 17I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.