I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
⛓ Read Malachi 3 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The LORD comes in judgment 'against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages,' a prophetic restatement of the offense and the cry that reaches God.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Malachi names those who oppress the widow among the wrongdoers God will swiftly judge. The pairing of widow-oppression with imminent divine reckoning parallels Jesus' 'these will receive greater condemnation,' reinforcing the prophetic-judgment frame.
Low confidence