American Standard Version
"Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee? "
— Malachi 3:13, American Standard Version
“Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?”
“"Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'”
“Resistance to the Lord through Self-sufficiency“You have criticized me sharply,” says the LORD,“but you ask,‘How have we criticized you?’”
“Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.”
“Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?”
“Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?”
Bring ye the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before the time in the field, saith Jehovah of hosts.
And all nations shall call you happy; for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
and now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.
Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another; and Jehovah hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.