Malachi 3:9
New International Version
You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me.

New Living Translation
You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me.

English Standard Version
You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.

Berean Standard Bible
You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.

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

New King James Version
You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even this whole nation.

New American Standard Bible
You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the entire nation of you!

NASB 1995
“You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!

NASB 1977
“You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!

Legacy Standard Bible
You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!

Amplified Bible
You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, this whole nation!

Christian Standard Bible
You are suffering under a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are suffering under a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.

American Standard Version
Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
In a curse you are cursed and you are cheating me

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And ye do surely look off from me, and ye insult me.

Contemporary English Version
That's why your whole nation is under a curse.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even the whole nation of you.

English Revised Version
Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So a curse is on you because the whole nation is cheating me!

Good News Translation
A curse is on all of you because the whole nation is cheating me.

International Standard Version
You are cursed under the curse—the entire nation—because you are robbing me!

JPS Tanakh 1917
Ye are cursed with the curse, Yet ye rob Me, Even this whole nation.

Literal Standard Version
You are cursed with a curse! And you are deceiving Me—this nation—all of it.

Majority Standard Bible
You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.

New American Bible
You are indeed accursed, for you, the whole nation, rob me.

NET Bible
You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me--this whole nation is guilty.

New Revised Standard Version
You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me—the whole nation of you!

New Heart English Bible
You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

World English Bible
You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

Young's Literal Translation
With a curse ye are cursed! And Me ye are deceiving -- this nation -- all of it.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Robbing God
8Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings. 9You are cursed with a curse, yet you— the whole nation— are still robbing Me. 10Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.…

Cross References
Haggai 1:11
I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands."

Zechariah 5:3
Then he told me, "This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.

Malachi 2:2
If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name," says the LORD of Hosts, "I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.


Treasury of Scripture

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

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.

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: …

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…

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Malachi 3
1. Of the messenger, majesty, and grace of Christ.
7. Of the rebellion,
8. sacrilege,
13. and infidelity of the people.
16. The promise of blessing to those who fear God.














(9) Comp. Malachi 2:2; Malachi 3:11.

Verse 9. - Ye are cursed with a (the) curse. The effect of the curse was scarcity and barrenness, as we see from vers. 10-12 (comp. Malachi 2:2; Haggai 1:6). The Vulgate assumes the result: In penuria vos maledicti estis. The next clause given the reason of the curse. This whole nation. Not individuals only, but the whole nation (he does not any longer call them God's people) were implicated in this sin. The LXX., reading differently, has, "The year is ended, and ye have brought," etc.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You
אַתֶּ֣ם (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

are cursed
נֵֽאָרִ֔ים (nê·’ā·rîm)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 779: To execrate

with a curse,
בַּמְּאֵרָה֙ (bam·mə·’ê·rāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3994: An execration

yet you—
אַתֶּ֣ם (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

the whole
כֻּלּֽוֹ׃ (kul·lōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

nation—
הַגּ֖וֹי (hag·gō·w)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

are still robbing Me.
קֹבְעִ֑ים (qō·ḇə·‘îm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 6906: To cover, defraud


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