Malachi 3:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

For I am the Lord: I change not, and ye sonnes of Iaakob are not consumed.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֛י אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה לֹ֣א שָׁנִ֑יתִי וְאַתֶּ֥ם בְּנֵֽי־יַעֲקֹ֖ב לֹ֥א כְלִיתֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Ki ʾani YHWH loʾ shaniti we-ʾattem bene-Yaʿaqov loʾ khelitem.

Grammar Details

• *Ki*: conjunction - for/because
• *ʾani*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
• *YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *loʾ*: negative particle - not
• *shaniti*: Qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have changed
• *we-ʾattem*: waw conjunction + 2nd person masculine plural pronoun - and you
• *bene-Yaʿaqov*: noun, masculine plural construct + proper noun - sons of Jacob
• *khelitem*: Qal perfect, 2nd masculine plural - you have been consumed/destroyed

Word Meanings

• *shaniti*: changed/altered/varied
• *bene-Yaʿaqov*: sons of Jacob/descendants of Jacob/Jacob's children
• *khelitem*: been consumed/been destroyed/come to an end/been finished

Referenced Verses

• Num 23:19 : 19 God is not as man, that he should lie, neither as the sonne of man that he shoulde repent: hath he sayde and shal he not do it? and hath he spoken, and shal he not accomplish it?
• Lam 3:22-23 : 22 It is the Lordes mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not. 23 They are renued euery morning: great is thy faithfulnesse.
• Jas 1:17 : 17 Euery good giuing, and euery perfect gift is from aboue, and commeth downe from the Father of lights, with whome is no variablenes, neither shadow of turning.
• Heb 13:8 : 8 Remember them which haue the ouersight of you, which haue declared vnto you the word of God: whose faith followe, considering what hath bene the ende of their conuersation. Iesus Christ yesterday, and to day, the same also is for euer.
• Rev 1:8 : 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, Which is, and Which was, and Which is to come, euen the Almightie.
• 1 Sam 15:29 : 29 For in deede the strength of Israel will not lye nor repent: for hee is not a man that hee should repent.
• Ps 78:38 : 38 Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, & destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, & did not stirre vp all his wrath.
• Isa 41:13 : 13 For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying vnto thee, Feare not, I wil helpe thee.
• Isa 45:5-8 : 5 I am the Lorde and there is none other: there is no God besides me: I girded thee though thou hast not knowen me, 6 That they may knowe from the rising of the sunne and from the West, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none other. 7 I forme the light and create darkenes: I make peace and create euill: I the Lorde doe all these things. 8 Ye heauens, send the dewe from aboue, and let the cloudes droppe downe righteousnesse: let the earth open, and let saluation and iustice growe foorth: let it bring them foorth together: I the Lord haue created him.
• Rev 22:13 : 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ende, the first and the last.
• 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 But we ought to giue thankes alway to God for you, brethren beloued of the Lord, because that God hath from the beginning chosen you to saluation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and the faith of trueth, 14 Whereunto he called you by our Gospel, to obtaine the glory of our Lord Iesus Christ.
• Heb 6:18 : 18 That by two immutable things, wherein it is vnpossible that God should lye, we might haue strong consolation, which haue our refuge to lay holde vpon that hope that is set before vs,
• Rom 11:28-29 : 28 As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloued for the fathers sakes. 29 For the giftes and calling of God are without repentance.
• Phil 1:6 : 6 And I am persuaded of this same thing, that he that hath begunne this good worke in you, wil perfourme it vntill the day of Iesus Christ,
• Rom 8:28-32 : 28 Also we knowe that all thinges worke together for the best vnto them that loue God, euen to them that are called of his purpose. 29 For those which hee knewe before, he also predestinate to bee made like to the image of his Sonne, that hee might be the first borne among many brethren. 30 Moreouer whom he predestinate, them also he called, & whom he called, them also he iustified, & whom he iustified, them he also glorified. 31 What shall we then say to these thinges? If God be on our side, who can be against vs? 32 Who spared not his owne Sonne, but gaue him for vs all to death, how shall he not with him giue vs all things also?
• Jer 32:27 : 27 Beholde, I am the Lord God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
• Ps 103:17 : 17 But the louing kindnesse of the Lord endureth for euer and euer vpon them that feare him, and his righteousnes vpon childrens children,
• Ps 105:7-9 : 7 He is the Lorde our God: his iudgements are through all the earth. 8 He hath alway remembred his couenant & promes, that he made to a thousand generations, 9 Euen that which he made with Abraham, and his othe vnto Izhak: 10 And since hath confirmed it to Iaakob for a lawe, and to Israel for an euerlasting couenant,
• Isa 42:5-8 : 5 Thus sayeth God the Lord (he that created the heauens and spred them abroad: he that stretched foorth the earth, and the buddes thereof: he that giueth breath vnto the people vpon it, and spirit to them that walke therein) 6 I the Lorde haue called thee in righteousnesse, and will hold thine hand, and I will keepe thee, and giue thee for a couenant of the people, and for a light of the Gentiles, 7 That thou maist open the eyes of the blind, and bring out the prisoners from the prison: and them that sitte in darkenesse, out of the prison house. 8 I am the Lorde, this is my Name, and my glory wil I not giue to another, neither my praise to grauen images.
• Isa 43:11-12 : 11 I, euen I am the Lorde, and beside me there is no Sauiour. 12 I haue declared, and I haue saued, and I haue shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, sayeth the Lord, that I am God.
• Isa 44:6 : 6 Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel and his redeemer, the Lord of hostes, I am the first, and I am the last, and without me is there no God.
• Ps 78:57 : 57 But turned backe & delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.
• Exod 3:14-15 : 14 And God answered Moses, I Am That I Am. Also he said, Thus shalt thou say vnto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me vnto you. 15 And God spake further vnto Moses, Thus shalt thou say vnto the children of Israel, The Lorde God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Izhak, and the God of Iaakob hath sent me vnto you: this is my Name for euer, and this is my memoriall vnto all ages.
• Gen 22:16 : 16 And saide, By my selfe haue I sworne (saith ye Lord) because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thine onely sonne,
• Gen 15:7 : 7 Againe he saide vnto him, I am the Lord, that brought thee out of Vr of the Caldees, to giue thee this land to inherite it.
• Ps 102:26 : 26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: euen they all shall waxe olde as doeth a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.
• Neh 9:7-8 : 7 Thou art, O Lord, the God, that hast chosen Abram, and broughtest him out of Vr in Caldea, and madest his name Abraham, 8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a couenant with him, to giue vnto his seede the lande of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, and Perizzites, and Iebusites, and Girgashites, and hast performed thy wordes, because thou art iust.
• Isa 40:28-31 : 28 Knowest thou not? or hast thou not heard, that the euerlasting God, the Lorde hath created the endes of the earth? he neither fainteth, nor is wearie: there is no searching of his vnderstanding. 29 But he giueth strength vnto him that fainteth, and vnto him that hath no strength, he encreaseth power. 30 Euen the yong men shall faint, and be wearie, and the yong men shall stumble and fall. 31 But they that waite vpon the Lord, shall renue their strength: they shall lift vp the wings as the eagles: they shall runne, and not be wearie, and they shall walke and not faint.
• Hos 11:9 : 9 I wil not execute ye fiercenesse of my wrath: I will not returne to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man, the holy one in the middes of thee, and I will not enter into the citie.
• Rom 5:10 : 10 For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Sonne, much more being reconciled, we shalbe saued by his life,
• Gen 15:18 : 18 In that same day the Lord made a couenant with Abram, saying, Vnto thy seede haue I giuen this lande, from the riuer of Egypt vnto the great riuer, the riuer Euphrates.