Malachi 2:17

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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 ancestors tried me. They put me to the test, [even] though they had seen my work.

Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become to me like burden, I am not able to bear [them].

Then he said, "Hear, house of David! [Is it] too little for you to make men weary, that you should also make my God weary?

You have not bought me spice reed with money or satisfied me [with] the fat of sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have made me weary with your iniquities.

You have forsaken me," {declares} Yahweh. "You go backward, so I have stretched my hand against you, and I have destroyed you. I am tired of becoming remorseful.

{Because} you did not remember the days of your childhood and you made me angry with all of these. And in turn I, look, I will return your way upon [your] head,' {declares} the Lord Yahweh, 'and did you not [do] wickedness in addition to all of your detestable things?

Look! I [am] going to press [you] down in your place just as a utility cart full of mature stalks of grain [is pressed down].

Every

"Your words have been harsh against me," says Yahweh. "But you say, 'How have we spoken together against you?'

for Job has said, 'I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice.

But you are obsessed with [the] judgment of [the] wicked; judgment and justice take hold of you.

because I envied the boastful [when] I saw [the] well-being 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] just; [he is] a faithful God, and {without injustice}; righteous and upright [is] he.

Do not increase speaking {very proud} words! Let no arrogance go forth from your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge [whose] deeds are not weighed.

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He never sees."

Because sentence against an evil deed is not carried out quickly, the heart of {humans} fills up within them to do evil.

Ah! Those who drag iniquity along with the cords of falsehood and sin as with rope of the cart,

Therefore Yahweh waits to be gracious [to] you, and therefore he will rise up to show you mercy, for Yahweh [is] a God of justice; blessed [are] all those who wait for him.

And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel [are] doing in the dark, each in the inner rooms of his idol, for [they are] saying, 'Yahweh [is] not seeing us; Yahweh has abandoned the land.'"

And he said to me, "The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah [is] {exceedingly} great, and the land is filled with bloodguilt, and the city is full of injustice. For they say Yahweh abandoned the land, and {Yahweh does not see}.

And it shall be [that] at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men {whose senses are dulled from drinking}, who say in their hearts, 'Yahweh will not do good, nor will he do evil.'

above all knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following according to their own desires