So I defiled the officers of the sanctuary, and set Jacob apart for destruction and Israel for scorn.
Malachi 3:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised You are suffering under a curse, yet you #– #the whole nation #– #are still robbing me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You are cursed with the curse, for you are robbing Me, even this whole nation. [Lev. 26:14-17.] American Standard Version (1901) Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation. Common English Bible You are being cursed with a curse, and you, the entire nation, are robbing me. Catholic Public Domain Version And you have been cursed with privation, and you greatly afflict me, even your entire people. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even the whole nation of you. |
So I defiled the officers of the sanctuary, and set Jacob apart for destruction and Israel for scorn.
Then he said to me, ‘This is the curse that is going out over the whole land, for everyone who is a thief, contrary to what is written on one side, has gone unpunished, and everyone who swears falsely, contrary to what is written on the other side, has gone unpunished.
If you don’t listen, and if you don’t take it to heart to honour my name,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. In fact, I have already begun to curse them because you are not taking it to heart.
Wasn’t Achan son of Zerah unfaithful regarding what was set apart for destruction, bringing wrath on the entire community of Israel? He was not the only one who perished because of his iniquity.” ’