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 tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

He said, "Listen now, house of David: Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?

You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled 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,' says the LORD, 'you have gone backward:' therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.

"'Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,' says the Lord GOD: 'and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.

Every

"Your words have been stout against me," says the LORD. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'

For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of 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 right is he.

"Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Do not let arrogance come out of your mouth, For the LORD is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

He says 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 to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;

Therefore the LORD will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on 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 do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, 'The LORD doesn't see us. The LORD has forsaken the land.'"

Then he said to 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 perversion: for they say, 'The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD doesn't see.'

It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil."

knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking and walking after their own lusts,