Malachi 2:17

The people weary God by claiming that evildoers please Him and by cynically questioning where the God of justice is.

Cross-references · 27

• Isa 43:24You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
• 2 Pet 3:3–4Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
• Isa 5:18–20Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,
• Eccl 8:11When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
• Zeph 1:12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
• Isa 30:18Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
• Amos 2:13Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.
• 1 Sam 2:3Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
• Isa 1:14I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.
• Isa 7:13Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?
• Job 34:17Could one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One,
• Job 36:17But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.
• Jer 15:6You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.
• Ezek 8:12“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
• Ezek 16:43Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?
• Mal 1:6–7“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
• Ps 95:9–10where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
• Ps 73:3–15For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Matt 11:18–19For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’
• Job 34:36If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.
• Mal 3:8Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
• Mal 2:14Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
• Mal 3:13–15“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
• Ezek 9:9He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’
• Ps 10:11–13He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
• Job 34:5–9For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
• Deut 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

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