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 tested me, tried me, and saw my work.

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them.

And he said, Hear you now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?

You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices: but you have made me to serve with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.

You have forsaken me, says the LORD, you are gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary of relenting.

Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense your way upon your head, says the Lord GOD: and you shall not commit this lewdness in addition to all your abominations.

Behold, I am weighted down under you, as a cart is weighted down that is full of sheaves.

Every

Your words have been strong against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, What have we spoken so much against you?

For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my justice.

But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

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

Where

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are justice: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

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

He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of justice: blessed are all they that wait for him.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his idols? for they say, The LORD sees us not; the LORD has forsaken the land.

Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD sees not.

And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men that are settled in their complacency: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,