Malachi 3 · Verse 9

Malachi 3:9

Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Malachi 3:9, King James Version

Malachi 3:9 in other translations

BSBYou are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.
WEBYou are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
ASVYe are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation.
YLTWith a curse ye are cursed! And Me ye are deceiving--this nation--all of it.
DARBYYe are cursed with a curse; and me ye rob, even this whole nation.
BBEYou are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.
WebsterYe are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

What does Malachi 3:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Malachi 3:7-12

7-12. Reproof for the non-payment of tithes and offerings, which is the cause of their national calamities, and promise of prosperity on their paying them. from ... days of your fathers--Ye live as your fathers did when they brought on themselves the Babylonian captivity, and ye wish to follow in their steps. This shows that nothing but God's unchanging long-suffering had prevented their being long ago "consumed"…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 Ye are cursed with a curse - The whole nation is under my displeasure. The curse of God is upon you.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Malachi 3:7-12

The men of that generation turned away from God, they had not kept his ordinances. God gives them a gracious call. But they said, Wherein shall we return? God notices what returns our hearts make to the calls of his word. It shows great perverseness in sin, when men make afflictions excuses for sin, which are sent to part between them and their sins. Here is an earnest exhortation to reform. God must be served in…

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Malachi 3:9 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בַּמְּאֵרָה֙ba.me.'e.Rahwith <the> curseH3994
אַתֶּ֣ם'a.TemyouH859
נֵֽאָרִ֔יםne.'a.Rim[are] cursedH779
וְאֹתִ֖יve.'o.Tiand <obj.> meH853
אַתֶּ֣ם'a.TemyouH859
קֹבְעִ֑יםkoe.'Im[are] robbingH6906
הַגּ֖וֹיha.Goythe nationH1471
כֻּלּֽוֹ\׃ku.Loall of itH3605

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Malachi 3:9

  • Deuteronomy 28:15-19

    But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. …

  • Malachi 2:2

    If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

  • Haggai 2:14-17

    Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean. And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord: Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty. I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord.

  • Haggai 1:6-11

    Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord. Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. …

  • Joshua 22:20

    Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

  • Isaiah 43:28

    Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

  • Joshua 7:12-13

    Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you. Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2:2; De 28:15-19; Jos 7:12,13; 22:20; Isa 43:28; Hag 1:6-11; 2:14-17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Malachi 3:8

    Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

  • Malachi 3:9

    Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

  • Malachi 3:10

    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.

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Malachi 3:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Malditos sois con maldición, porque vosotros, la nación toda, me habéis robado.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Vous êtes chargés de malédiction, et vous me frustrez toujours, vous, la nation tout entière.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Mit dem Fluche seid ihr verflucht, und doch beraubet ihr mich, ihr, die ganze Nation!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et in penuria vos maledicti estis, et me vos configitis gens tota.