Catholic Public Domain Version
"Your words have gathered strength over me, says the Lord. "
— Malachi 3:13, Catholic Public Domain 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, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken 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 all the tithes into the storehouse, and let there be food in my house. And test me about this, says the Lord, as to whether I will not open to you the floodgates of heaven, and pour out to you a blessing, all the way to abundance.
And I will rebuke for your sakes the devourer, and he will not corrupt the fruit of your land. Neither will the vine in the field be barren, says the Lord of hosts.
And all nations will call you blessed. For you will be a desirable land, says the Lord of hosts.
Your words have gathered strength over me, says the Lord.
And you have said, “What have we spoken against you?” You have said, “He labors in vain who serves God,” and, “What advantage is it that we have kept his precepts, and that we have walked sorrowfully in the sight of the Lord of hosts?”
Now, therefore, we call the arrogant blessed, as if those who work impiety have been built up, and as if they have tempted God and been saved.
Then those who fear the Lord spoke, each one with his neighbor. And the Lord paid attention and heeded. And a book of remembrance was written in his sight, for those who fear the Lord and for those who consider his name.