Malachi 3:5
New English Translation
5 “I[a] will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination; those who commit adultery; those who break promises;[b] and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans,[c] who refuse to help[d] the resident foreigner[e] and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
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- Malachi 3:5 tn The first person pronoun (a reference to the Lord) indicates that the Lord himself now speaks (see also v. 1). The prophet speaks in vv. 2-4 (see also 2:17).
- Malachi 3:5 tn Heb “those who swear [oaths] falsely.” Cf. NIV “perjurers”; TEV “those who give false testimony”; NLT “liars.”
- Malachi 3:5 tn Heb “and against the oppressors of the worker for a wage, [the] widow and orphan.”
- Malachi 3:5 tn Heb “those who turn aside.”
- Malachi 3:5 sn Cf. Exod 22:21; Lev 19:33-34; Deut 10:18-19; 24:14, 17; 27:19; Jer 22:3; Zech 7:10.
Malachi 3:5
King James Version
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
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