Text -- Malachi 3:5 (NET)

3:5 “I 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, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Mal 3:5

¹ 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).

² tn Heb “those who swear [oaths] falsely.” Cf. NIV “perjurers”; TEV “those who give false testimony”; NLT “liars.”

³ tn Heb “and against the oppressors of the worker for a wage, [the] widow and orphan.”

⁴ tn Heb “those who turn aside.”

⁵ tn Or “resident foreigner”; NIV “aliens”; NRSV “the alien.”