Malachie 3:9

9 Vous êtes frappés de malédiction, et vous me trompez, vous, la nation entière!

Malachie 3:9 Meaning and Commentary

Malachi 3:9

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 from them for their sins, and the earth did not bring forth its usual increase; wherefore there was want of food in all their land; their blessings were cursed, as in ( Malachi 2:2 ) for the following reason,

for ye have robbed me;
because of this their iniquity, in not bringing their offerings to the Lord, and the tithes to the priests and Levites, their land was stricken with barrenness, and God gave them cleanness of teeth, and want of bread in all places: or, "but ye have robbed me" ^F4; notwithstanding they were thus chastised of the Lord, yet were not reformed, but went on in withholding from God and the priests, what belonged to them:

[even] this whole nation;
the sin was become general, and therefore a general judgment was inflicted on them: Grotius thinks, that the people seeing the priests withhold the tithes from the Levites, they refused to pay them to them, and so the sin became universal. Kimchi observes, that in other sins charged upon the nation, the people were not all alike guilty, but in this which respected the tithes and offerings they were.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (Myebq Mta ytaw) "et tamen diripitis me", De Dieu.

Malachie 3:9 In-Context

7 Depuis le temps de vos pères, vous vous êtes écartés de mes ordonnances, et vous ne les avez point observées. Revenez à moi et je reviendrai à vous, a dit l'Éternel des armées. Et vous dites: "En quoi reviendrons-nous? "

8 L'homme trompera-t-il Dieu? Car vous me trompez. Et vous dites: "En quoi t'avons-nous trompé? " Dans les dîmes et dans les offrandes.

9 Vous êtes frappés de malédiction, et vous me trompez, vous, la nation entière!

10 Apportez toutes les dîmes à la maison du trésor, et qu'il y ait de la provision dans ma maison; et éprouvez-moi en cela, dit l'Éternel des armées: si je ne vous ouvre pas les écluses des cieux, et si je ne répands pas sur vous la bénédiction sans mesure.

11 Et je détournerai de vous le rongeur; il ne vous détruira pas le fruit de la terre, et vos vignes ne seront point stériles dans la campagne, a dit l'Éternel des armées.