Malachi 2:17
You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?
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Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.
Job 34:5For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;
Job 34:36May Job be tested to the end, because his answers have been like those of evil men.
Psalms 10:11He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.
Psalms 95:9When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.
Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under 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 →