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¶ Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken [so much] against thee?

Your words {H1697} have been stout {H2388} against me, saith {H559} the LORD {H3068}. Yet ye say {H559}, What have we spoken {H1696} so much against thee?

"You have spoken strongly against me," says ADONAI. "Yet you say, 'How have we spoken against you?'

“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

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Cross-References

  • Malachi 2:17 (7 votes)

    Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied [him]? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil [is] good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where [is] the God of judgment?

  • Romans 9:20 (4 votes)

    Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus?

  • Isaiah 37:23 (4 votes)

    Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.

  • Malachi 1:6 (3 votes)

    ¶ A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honour? and if I [be] a master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

  • Malachi 1:8 (3 votes)

    And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [is it] not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, [is it] not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.

  • 2 Thessalonians 2:4 (3 votes)

    Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

  • Job 40:8 (2 votes)

    Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?