Malachi 2:17
You have worn the Lord out with your words. “How have we worn him out?” you ask. By saying everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord and he is happy with them, or by asking, where is the Lord's justice?
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Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock. Everything he does is perfect, for all his ways are right. He is the trustworthy God who is never unjust; he is fair and honest.
Job 34:5Job said, ‘I am innocent, and God has denied me justice.
Job 34:36If only Job were thoroughly condemned because he speaks like evil people do.
Psalms 10:11They tell themselves, “God won't notice. He's looking the other way. He won't ever see anything.”
Psalms 95:9when your forefathers provoked me, testing my patience, even though they had seen everything I'd done.
Isaiah 1:14I detest your new moon and yearly festivals with my whole being! They've become just a burden to me—I can't bear them anymore!
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 →