King James Version
"Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?"
— Malachi 3:13, King James Version
“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 ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord 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 her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.
And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.
Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.