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Malachi 3:9

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

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Ye are cursed with a curse,.... Or "with penury", as the Vulgate Latin version; which, though not a proper rendering of the word, is the meaning of the curse they were cursed with; rain was withheld…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Ye have been cursed with the curse - (not “with a curse”). The curse threatened had come upon them: but, as fore-supposed in Leviticus by the repeated burden, “If ye still walk contrary to Me,” they…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Malachi 3:7-12

We have here God's controversy with the men of that generation, for deserting his service and robbing him - wicked servants indeed, that not only run away from their Master, but run away with their…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

a curse Rather, the curse. The threatened curse has already fallen upon you. See ch. Mal 2:2 with Mal 3:11.

have robbed Rather rob, as in Mal 3:3.

The pronouns in the Hebrew are emphatic: Me ye are…