Malachi 2:17
Ye have wearied the Lord with your words: yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? By your saying, Every one that doth evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and in them he findeth delight; or else, Where is the God of justice!
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Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are just: the God of truth and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Job 34:5For Job hath said, “I am righteous; and God hath taken away justice from me.
Job 34:36Oh that Job may therefore be probed continually, in order to give answers against sinful men.
Psalms 10:11He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; he hath hidden his face; he will never see it.
Psalms 95:9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, although they had seen my doing.
Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are become a burden unto me; I am weary to bear 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 →