Malachi 2:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

Wearied

Amos 2:13

Every

Matthew 11:18

Where

Bible References

Wearied

when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.

And he said, "Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also?

You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.

You have rejected me, declares the LORD; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you-- I am weary of relenting.

Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?

"Behold, I will press you down in your place, as a cart full of sheaves presses down.

Every

"Your words have been hard against me, says the LORD. But you say, 'How have we spoken against you?'

For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;

"But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.

For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'

Where

"The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it."

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,

Therefore the LORDwaits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Then he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, 'The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.'"

Then he said to me, "The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For they say, 'The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see.'

At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, 'The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.'

knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.