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Yes, but passages like that (and there are plenty) can be taken to mean that God is constant, that is, he doesn't change his mind on a whim, that we can trust him, that when he says he's going to do something he means it, that sort of thing. Compare that passage to the passages where God gets angry. Now, if God can get angry, presumably there are times when he is not angry. But that means he changes (goes from not-angry to angry). So passages like Malachi can't simply mean God doesn't change.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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