Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
Against their blasphemous murmuring that God has deceived or forsaken them, I assert that His covenant shall not fail. Though men are perfidious, God remains true to His own nature and cannot depart from it; He triumphs gloriously over their slanders by accomplishing His promises in their due time.
AI summary
Commenting on Malachi 3:1-18
Among the people of the Jews at this time, though they all enjoyed the same privileges and advantages, there were men of very different characters (as ever were, and ever will be, in the world and in the church), like Jeremiah's figs, some very good and others very bad, some that plainly appeared to be the children of God and others that as plainly discovered...
Commenting on Malachi 3:13-18
Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord,.... Hard and strong; they bore very hardly upon him, were exceeding impudent and insolent; murmuring at his providence; arraigning his justice and goodness; and despising his word, worship, and ordinances. Aben Ezra says, this is a prophecy concerning the time to come, that is, the times of the Messiah; and so it describes the Jews in his times.