Malachi 3:5-7
1599 Geneva Bible
5 And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the soothsayers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling’s wages, and vex the widow, and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
6 For I am the Lord: I change not, and ye sons of Jacob [a]are not consumed.
7 From the days of your fathers, ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them: [b]return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts: but ye said, Wherein shall we return?
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- Malachi 3:6 They murmured against God, because they saw not his help ever present to defend them: and therefore he accuseth them of ingratitude, and showeth that in that they are not daily consumed, it is a token, that he doth still defend them, and so his mercy toward them never changeth.
- Malachi 3:7 Read Zech. 1:3.
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