Isaiah 46:12

46:12 Listen to me, you stubborn people, ¹ 

you who distance yourself from doing what is right. ² 

Isaiah 48:4

48:4 I did this ³  because I know how stubborn you are.

Your neck muscles are like iron

and your forehead like bronze. ⁴ 

Proverbs 16:18

16:18 Pride ⁵  goes ⁶  before destruction,

and a haughty spirit before a fall. ⁷ 

Malachi 3:13

Resistance to the Lord through Self-sufficiency

3:13 “You have criticized me sharply,” ⁸  says the Lord, “but you ask, ‘How have we criticized you?’

Malachi 4:1

4:1 (3:19) ⁹  “For indeed the day ¹⁰  is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the Lord who rules over all. “It ¹¹  will not leave even a root or branch.

Malachi 4:1

4:1 (3:19) ¹²  “For indeed the day ¹³  is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the Lord who rules over all. “It ¹⁴  will not leave even a root or branch.

Malachi 1:5

1:5 Your eyes will see it, and then you will say, ‘May the Lord be magnified ¹⁵  even beyond the border of Israel!’”

[46:12]  ¹ tn Heb “strong of heart [or, mind]”; KJV “stouthearted”; NAB “fainthearted”; NIV “stubborn-hearted.”

[46:12]  ² tn Heb “who are far from righteousness [or perhaps, “deliverance”].”

[48:4]  ³ tn The words “I did this” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text v. 4 is subordinated to v. 3.

[48:4]  ⁴ sn The image is that of a person who has tensed the muscles of the face and neck as a sign of resolute refusal.

[16:18]  ⁵ sn The two lines of this proverb are synonymous parallelism, and so there are parasynonyms. “Pride” is paired with “haughty spirit” (“spirit” being a genitive of specification); and “destruction” is matched with “a tottering, falling.”

[16:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “[is] before destruction.”

[16:18]  ⁷ sn Many proverbs have been written in a similar way to warn against the inevitable disintegration and downfall of pride. W. McKane records an Arabic proverb: “The nose is in the heavens, the seat is in the mire” (Proverbs [OTL], 490).

[3:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “your words are hard [or “strong”] against me”; cf. NIV “said harsh things against me”; TEV, NLT “said terrible things about me.”

[4:1]  ⁹ sn Beginning with 4:1, the verse numbers through 4:6 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 4:1 ET = 3:19 HT, 4:2 ET = 3:20 HT, etc., through 4:6 ET = 3:24 HT. Thus the book of Malachi in the Hebrew Bible has only three chapters, with 24 verses in ch. 3.

[4:1]  ¹⁰ sn This day is the well-known “day of the Lord” so pervasive in OT eschatological texts (see Joel 2:30-31; Amos 5:18; Obad 15). For the believer it is a day of grace and salvation; for the sinner, a day of judgment and destruction.

[4:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “so that it” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons a new sentence was begun here in the translation.

[4:1]  ¹² sn Beginning with 4:1, the verse numbers through 4:6 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 4:1 ET = 3:19 HT, 4:2 ET = 3:20 HT, etc., through 4:6 ET = 3:24 HT. Thus the book of Malachi in the Hebrew Bible has only three chapters, with 24 verses in ch. 3.

[4:1]  ¹³ sn This day is the well-known “day of the Lord” so pervasive in OT eschatological texts (see Joel 2:30-31; Amos 5:18; Obad 15). For the believer it is a day of grace and salvation; for the sinner, a day of judgment and destruction.

[4:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “so that it” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons a new sentence was begun here in the translation.

[1:5]  ¹⁵ tn Or “Great is the Lord” (so NAB; similar NIV, NRSV).