Malachi 3:15

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Summary

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

We call

Yea

Habakkuk 1:13

Set

Job 22:23

They that tempt

Bible References

We call

For, lo, the day hath come, burning as a furnace, And all the proud, and every wicked doer, have been stubble, And burnt them hath the day that came, Said Jehovah of Hosts, That there is not left to them root or branch,

And Haman forceth himself, and cometh in unto his house, and sendeth, and bringeth in his friends, and Zeresh his wife,

Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.

For his soul in his life he blesseth, (And they praise thee when thou dost well for thyself.)

Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.

the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour?

and when his heart was high, and his spirit was strong to act proudly, he hath been caused to come down from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory they have caused to pass away from him,

and on a set day, Herod having arrayed himself in kingly apparel, and having sat down upon the tribunal, was making an oration unto them,

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

Yea

Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, And ye have said: 'In what have we wearied Him?' In your saying: 'Every evil-doer is good in the eyes of Jehovah, And in them He is delighting,' Or, 'Where is the God of judgment?'

At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.

Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.

The wicked hath desired the net of evil doers, And the root of the righteous giveth.

But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole is before them.

Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers.

Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,

Set

If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents.

They that tempt

for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice --

Then the king hath said, and they have brought Daniel, and have cast him into a den of lions. The king hath answered and said to Daniel, 'Thy God, whom thou art serving continually, Himself doth deliver thee.'

And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

and saith to him, 'If Son thou art of God -- cast thyself down, for it hath been written, that, His messengers He shall charge concerning thee, and on hands they shall bear thee up, that thou mayest not dash on a stone thy foot.'

And Peter said unto her, 'How was it agreed by you, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? lo, the feet of those who did bury thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee forth;'

neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;