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"Resistance to the Lord through Self-sufficiency“You have criticized me sharply,” says the LORD,“but you ask,‘How have we criticized you?’"
— Malachi 3:13, NET Bible
“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?'”
“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 the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out blessing for you until there is no room for it all.
Then I will stop the plague from ruining your crops, and the vine will not lose its fruit before harvest,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
“All nations will call you happy, for you indeed will live in a delightful land,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
Resistance to the Lord through Self-sufficiency“You have criticized me sharply,” says the LORD,“but you ask,‘How have we criticized you?’
You have said,‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the LORD of Heaven’s Armies?
So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!’”
Then those who respected the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD took notice. A scroll was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the LORD and honored his name.