Malachi 2:17
You have wearied the Lord with your speeches, and you have said, “In what way, have we wearied him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and such as these please him,” or certainly, “Where is the God of judgment?”
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Deuteronomy 32:4The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments. God is faithful and without any iniquity. He is just and upright.
Job 34:5For Job has said: “I am just, yet God has subverted my judgment.
Job 34:36My father, let Job be tested even to the end; may you not retreat from a man of iniquity.
Psalms 95:9Adore the Lord in his holy court. Let the entire earth be shaken before his face.
Isaiah 1:14My soul hates your days of proclamation and your solemnities. They have become bothersome to me. I labor to endure 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 →