Malachi 3:7

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For from the days of your fathers you have departed from my ordinances, and have not kept them: Return to me, and I will return to you, saith the Lord of hosts. And you have said: Wherein shall we return?

Cross References

Zechariah 1:3

And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye to me, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will turn to you, saith the Lord of hosts.

Romans 10:21

But to Israel he saith: All the day long have I spread my hands to a people that believeth not, and contradicteth me.

Romans 10:3

For they, not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.

James 4:8

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Deuteronomy 31:20

For I will bring them into the land, for which I swore to their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey. And when they have eaten, and are full and fat, they will turn away after strange gods, and will serve them: and will despise me, and make void my covenant.

Hosea 14:1

Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the women with child be ripped up.

Luke 15:16

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat; and no man gave unto him.

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, you rebellious children, and I will heal your rebellions. Behold, we come to thee: for thou art the Lord our God.

Matthew 23:27

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all filthiness.

Malachi 1:6

The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts.

Ezekiel 20:28

And I had brought them into the land for which I lifted up my hand to give it them. They saw every high hill, and every shady tree, and there they sacrificed their victims: and there they presented the provocation of their offerings and there they set their sweet odours and poured forth their libations.

Ezekiel 20:21

But their children provoked me, they walked not in my commandments nor observed my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they violated my sabbaths. And I threatened to pour out my indignation upon them and to accomplish my wrath in them in the desert.

Ezekiel 20:13

But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them, and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert and would consume them.

Ezekiel 20:8

But they provoked me and would not hearken to me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. And I said I would pour out my indignation upon them and accomplish my wrath against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 65:2

I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts.

Nehemiah 9:26

But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs. And they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee. And they were guilty of great blasphemies.

Malachi 3:13

Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 7:26

And they have not hearkened to me nor inclined their ear: but have hardened their neck and have done worse than their fathers.

Romans 7:9

And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

Jeremiah 7:25

From the day that their fathers came out of the land of Egypt even to this day. And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets from day to day, rising up early and sending.

Jeremiah 16:11

Thou shalt say to them: Because your fathers forsook me, saith the Lord, and went after strange gods and served them and adored them: and they forsook me and kept not my law.

Jeremiah 16:12

And you also have done worse than your fathers: for, behold, every one of you walketh after the perverseness of his evil heart, so as not to hearken to me.

Ezekiel 2:3

And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people that hath revolted from me. They and their fathers have transgressed my covenant even unto this day.