Malachi 2:17

Ye have wearied LORD with your words. Yet ye say, How have we wearied him? In that ye say, Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of LORD, and he delights in them, or Where is the God of justice?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

16For I hate putting away, says LORD, the God of Israel, and him who covers his garment with violence, says LORD of hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:4The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice, a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Job 34:5For Job has said, I am righteous, and God has taken away my right.

Job 34:36But surely not. Learn thou Job not to still give an answer like the foolish,

Psalms 10:11He says in his heart, God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.

Psalms 95:9where your fathers challenged me, proved me, and saw my work.

Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They are a trouble to me. I am weary of bearing them.

Matthew Henry on Malachi 2:11-17

Unlawful Marriages; Breach of the Marriage-covenant; Charge of Corrupt Principles. ( b. c. 400.) 10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? 11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. 12 The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this,… Read the whole commentary →

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