Malachi 2:17
You have wearied YHWH with your words, || And you have said, “In what have we wearied Him?” In your saying, “Every evildoer [is] good in the eyes of YHWH, || And He is delighting in them,” || Or, “Where [is] the God of judgment?”
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Deuteronomy 32:4The Rock—His work [is] perfect, || For all His ways [are] just; God of steadfastness, and without iniquity; Righteous and upright [is] He.
Job 34:5For Job has said, I have been righteous, || And God has turned aside my right,
Job 34:36My Father! Let Job be tried—to victory, || Because of answers for men of iniquity,
Psalms 10:11He said in his heart, “God has forgotten, || He has hid His face, || He has never seen.”
Psalms 95:9Where your fathers have tried Me, || Have proved Me, indeed, have seen My work.
Isaiah 1:14My soul has hated your new moons and your set seasons, || They have been on Me for a burden, || I have been weary of bearing.
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 →