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Malachi 3:14-16
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Malachi 3:14-16
New English Translation
14 You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped[a] by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord of Heaven’s Armies?[b] 15 So now we consider the arrogant to be blessed; indeed, those who practice evil are successful.[c] In fact, those who challenge[d] God escape!’”
16 Then those who respected[e] the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord took notice.[f] A scroll[g] was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the Lord and honored his name.
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- Malachi 3:14 tn Heb “What [is the] profit”; NIV “What did we gain.”
- Malachi 3:14 sn The people’s public display of self-effacing piety has gone unrewarded by the Lord. The reason, of course, is that it was blatantly hypocritical.
- Malachi 3:15 tn Heb “built up” (so NASB); NIV, NRSV “prosper”; NLT “get rich.”
- Malachi 3:15 tn Or “test”; NRSV, CEV “put God to the test.”
- Malachi 3:16 tn Or “fear” (so NAB); NRSV “revered”; NCV “honored.”
- Malachi 3:16 tn Heb “heard and listened”; NAB “listened attentively.”
- Malachi 3:16 sn The scroll mentioned here is a “memory book” (סֵפֶר זִכָּרוֹן, sefer zikkaron) in which the Lord keeps an ongoing record of the names of all the redeemed (see Exod 32:32; Isa 4:3; Dan 12:1; Rev 20:12-15).
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