Malachi 3:9
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And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even the whole nation of you.

Malachi 2:2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.

Deuteronomy 28:15-19 But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. . . .

Joshua 7:12,13 Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he shall flee from them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be no more with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness. . . .

Joshua 22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zare transgress the commandment of the Lord, and his wrath lay upon all the people of Israel? And he was but one man, and would to God he alone had perished in his wickedness.

Isaiah 43:28 And I have profaned the holy princes, I have given Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to reproach.

Haggai 1:6-11 You have sowed much, and brought in little: you have eaten, but have not had enough: you have drunk, but have not been filled with drink: you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed: and he that hath earned wages, put them into a bag with holes. . . .

Haggai 2:14-17 And Haggai answered, and said: So is this people, and so is this nation before my face, saith the Lord, and so is all the work of their hands: and all that they have offered there, shall be defiled. . . .

Context
Robbing God
8Shall a man afflict God, for you afflict me. And you have said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits. 9And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even the whole nation of you.10Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and try me in this, saith the Lord: if I open not unto you the flood-gates of heaven, and pour you out a blessing even to abundance.…
Cross References
Haggai 1:11
And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and upon all that the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon beasts, and upon all the labour of the hands.

Zechariah 5:3
And he said to me: This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the earth: for every thief shall be judged as is there written: and every one that sweareth in like manner shall be judged by it.

Malachi 2:2
If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.

Lexicon
You
אַתֶּ֣ם (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

are cursed
נֵֽאָרִ֔ים (nê·’ā·rîm)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 779: To execrate

with a curse,
בַּמְּאֵרָה֙ (bam·mə·’ê·rāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3994: An execration

yet you—
אַתֶּ֣ם (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

the whole
כֻּלּֽוֹ׃ (kul·lōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

nation—
הַגּ֖וֹי (hag·gō·w)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

are still robbing Me.
קֹבְעִ֑ים (qō·ḇə·‘îm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6906: To cover, defraud


Additional Translations
You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.

Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation.

And ye do surely look off from me, and ye insult me.

Ye are cursed with a curse; and me ye rob, [even] this whole nation.

Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation.

Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

With a curse ye are cursed! And Me ye are deceiving -- this nation -- all of it.
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