Malachi 2:2
listen <08085> [ye will not hear.]
take ...................................... taking <07760> [if ye will not lay.]
need <05414> [to give.]
judgment <0779> [and I.]
judgment <0779> [I have cursed. By sending them unfruitful seasons.]
Deuteronomy 28:15-19
ignore <08085> [if thou wilt.]
curses <07045> [all these curses.]
The same variety of expression is used in these terrible curses, as in the preceding blessings, to intimate every kind of prosperity or adversity, personal, relative, and public. Consulting the marginal references will generally lead to the best exposition of the terms employed; and will frequently point out the fulfilment of the promises and threatenings.
city <05892> [in the city.]
field <07704> [in the field.]
children ......... produce <0990 06529> [the fruit of thy body.]
soil <0127> [thy land.]
Joshua 7:12-13
Israelites <01121> [the children.]
annihilation .............. contaminated <02764> [they were.]
longer <03254> [neither.]
consecrate ......... consecrate <06942> [sanctify.]
contaminated ................... contaminating <02764> [an accursed.]
remove <05493> [take away.]
Joshua 22:20
Isaiah 43:28
defiled <02490> [I have.]
princes <08269> [princes. or, holy princes.]
handed ... over <05414> [and have.]
Haggai 1:6-11
planted ............ filled <02232 07654> [have.]
eat <0398> [eat.]
holes <05344> [with holes. Heb. pierced through.]
[See on ver.]
hill country <02022> [to.]
build <01129> [and build.]
pleased <07521> [and I will take.]
honored <03513> [I will be.]
expected ..... but ............... away <06437> [Ye looked.]
They had used all proper means in the cultivation of their lands, and had "sown much;" but when they rationally entertained the most sanguine expectations of a large increase, they were strangely disappointed; and even what they had brought home was unaccountably wasted, as if the Lord had "blown upon it," and driven it away! And the reason was, because they neglected the temple, and left it in ruins, whilst they eagerly employed themselves in building and decorating their own houses; therefore they were visited by drought and famine, and by various diseases on man and beast.
it ... it ...... asks <05301 05002> [blow upon it. or, blow it away.]
asks <05002> [Why.]
you ................. Because <03282> [Because.]
called <07121> [I called.]
produce <03018> [upon all.]
Haggai 2:14-17
people <05971> [So is this people.]
offer <07126> [and that.]
laid <07760> [consider.]
before <02962> [from before.]
came .... heap ........... came <0935 06194> [when one came to an.]
blight <07711> [with blasting.]
hail <01259> [with hail.]
labor <04639> [in all.]
says <05002> [yet.]
