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 bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.
• 2 Pet 3:3–4knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,
• Isa 5:18–20Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;
• Eccl 8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
• Zeph 1:12It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”
• Isa 30:18Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
• Amos 2:13Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
• 1 Sam 2:3“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
• Isa 1:14My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
• Isa 7:13He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
• Job 34:17Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty? —
• Job 36:17“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
• Jer 15:6You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward: therefore I have stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.
• Ezek 8:12Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’”
• Ezek 16:43“‘“Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
• Mal 1:6–7“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
• Ps 95:9–10when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
• Ps 73:3–15For I was envious of 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 34:36I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.
• Mal 3:8Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.
• Mal 2:14Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
• Mal 3:13–15“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
• Ezek 9:9Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’
• Ps 10:11–13He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
• Job 34:5–9For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
• Deut 32:4The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

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