World English Bible
""Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'"
— Malachi 3:13, World English 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? ”
“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 the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of Armies, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.
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 its time in the field," says Yahweh of Armies.
"All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land," says Yahweh of Armies.
"Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'
You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'
Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.