Malachi 2:17

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of Yahweh, and he delights in them,” or “Where is the God of justice?”

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In The King James Version

Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

In Context

16“For I hate divorce,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and the one who covers his garment with violence,” says Yahweh of hosts. “So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not be faithless.”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:4The Rock, his work is perfect; 1 for all his paths are just. 1 He is the faithful God, without iniquity. 1 He is just and upright. 1

Job 34:5For Job has said, 'I am righteous, 1 but God has taken away my rights. 1

Job 34:36If only Job were put on trial in the smallest details of his case 1 because of his talking like wicked men. 1

Psalms 10:11He says in his heart, “God has forgotten; 1 he covers his face; he will not bother to look.” 1

Psalms 95:9where your forefathers tested me 1 and tried me, though they had seen my deeds. 1

Isaiah 1:14I hate your new moons and your appointed feasts; 1 they are a burden to me; I am tired of enduring them. 1

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 →

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