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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 will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, 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 the Lord 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 store.
 18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
 19Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest 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: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
 13Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord 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 congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity. (Josh. 22:20)
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Isa. 43:28• 28Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, 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 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 the Lord 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 the Lord.
 9Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord 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 labor 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 the Lord; 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 upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord:
 16Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat 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 labors of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord. (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.