Ezekiel 18:25
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25 “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’(A) Hear, you Israelites: Is my way unjust?(B) Is it not your ways that are unjust?
Ezekiel 33:17
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17 “Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
Malachi 3:13-15
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Israel Speaks Arrogantly Against God
13 “You have spoken arrogantly(A) against me,” says the Lord.
“Yet you ask,(B) ‘What have we said against you?’
14 “You have said, ‘It is futile(C) to serve(D) God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements(E) and going about like mourners(F) before the Lord Almighty? 15 But now we call the arrogant(G) blessed. Certainly evildoers(H) prosper,(I) and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.’”
Malachi 2:17
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Breaking Covenant Through Injustice
17 You have wearied(A) the Lord with your words.
“How have we wearied him?” you ask.(B)
By saying, “All who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased(C) with them” or “Where is the God of justice?(D)”
Zephaniah 3:5
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Ezekiel 33:20
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20 Yet you Israelites say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to your own ways.”(A)
Jeremiah 12:1
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Jeremiah’s Complaint
Ezekiel 18:29
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29 Yet the Israelites say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are my ways unjust, people of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
Romans 10:3
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3 Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.(A)
Romans 9:20
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20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(A) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(B) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](C)
Footnotes
- Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
Romans 3:20
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20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law;(A) rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.(B)
Romans 3:5
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5 But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly,(A) what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)(B)
Romans 2:5-6
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5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath(A), when his righteous judgment(B) will be revealed. 6 God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”[a](C)
Footnotes
- Romans 2:6 Psalm 62:12; Prov. 24:12
Matthew 20:11-15
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11 When they received it, they began to grumble(A) against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat(B) of the day.’
13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend.(C) Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’(D)
Jeremiah 16:10-13
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10 “When you tell these people all this and they ask you, ‘Why has the Lord decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the Lord our God?’(A) 11 then say to them, ‘It is because your ancestors forsook me,’ declares the Lord, ‘and followed other gods and served and worshiped(B) them. They forsook me and did not keep my law.(C) 12 But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors.(D) See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts(E) instead of obeying me. 13 So I will throw you out of this land(F) into a land neither you nor your ancestors have known,(G) and there you will serve other gods(H) day and night, for I will show you no favor.’(I)
Jeremiah 2:29-37
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29 “Why do you bring charges against me?
You have all(A) rebelled against me,”
declares the Lord.
30 “In vain I punished your people;
they did not respond to correction.(B)
Your sword has devoured your prophets(C)
like a ravenous lion.
31 “You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord:
“Have I been a desert to Israel
or a land of great darkness?(D)
Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam;
we will come to you no more’?(E)
32 Does a young woman forget her jewelry,
a bride her wedding ornaments?
Yet my people have forgotten(F) me,
days without number.
33 How skilled you are at pursuing(G) love!
Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.
34 On your clothes is found
the lifeblood(H) of the innocent poor,
though you did not catch them breaking in.(I)
Yet in spite of all this
35 you say, ‘I am innocent;(J)
he is not angry with me.’
But I will pass judgment(K) on you
because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’(L)
36 Why do you go about so much,
changing(M) your ways?
You will be disappointed by Egypt(N)
as you were by Assyria.
37 You will also leave that place
with your hands on your head,(O)
for the Lord has rejected those you trust;
you will not be helped(P) by them.
Jeremiah 2:17-23
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17 Have you not brought this on yourselves(A)
by forsaking(B) the Lord your God
when he led you in the way?
18 Now why go to Egypt(C)
to drink water from the Nile[a]?(D)
And why go to Assyria(E)
to drink water from the Euphrates?(F)
19 Your wickedness will punish you;
your backsliding(G) will rebuke(H) you.
Consider then and realize
how evil and bitter(I) it is for you
when you forsake(J) the Lord your God
and have no awe(K) of me,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
20 “Long ago you broke off your yoke(L)
and tore off your bonds;(M)
you said, ‘I will not serve you!’(N)
Indeed, on every high hill(O)
and under every spreading tree(P)
you lay down as a prostitute.(Q)
21 I had planted(R) you like a choice vine(S)
of sound and reliable stock.
How then did you turn against me
into a corrupt,(T) wild vine?
22 Although you wash(U) yourself with soap(V)
and use an abundance of cleansing powder,
the stain of your guilt is still before me,”
declares the Sovereign Lord.(W)
23 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled;(X)
I have not run after the Baals’?(Y)
See how you behaved in the valley;(Z)
consider what you have done.
You are a swift she-camel
running(AA) here and there,
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew Shihor; that is, a branch of the Nile
Psalm 145:17
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Psalm 50:21
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Psalm 50:6
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Footnotes
- Psalm 50:6 With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text for God himself is judge
- Psalm 50:6 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.
Job 40:8
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Job 35:2
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Job 34:5-10
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5 “Job says, ‘I am innocent,(A)
but God denies me justice.(B)
6 Although I am right,
I am considered a liar;(C)
although I am guiltless,(D)
his arrow inflicts an incurable wound.’(E)
7 Is there anyone like Job,
who drinks scorn like water?(F)
8 He keeps company with evildoers;
he associates with the wicked.(G)
9 For he says, ‘There is no profit
in trying to please God.’(H)
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