Malachi 2:17
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The Messenger of the Lord
17 (A)You have wearied the Lord with your words. (B)But you say, “How have we wearied him?” (C)By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, (D)“Where is the God of justice?”
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Isaiah 43:24
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24 You have not bought me sweet cane with money,
or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices.
But you have burdened me with your sins;
you have wearied me with your iniquities.
2 Peter 3:3-4
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3 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come (A)in the last days with scoffing, (B)following their own sinful desires. 4 (C)They will say, “Where is the promise of (D)his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”
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Zephaniah 1:12
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12 At that time (A)I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
and I will punish the men
(B)who are complacent,[a]
(C)those who say in their hearts,
‘The Lord will not do good,
nor will he do ill.’
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 1:12 Hebrew are thickening on the dregs [of their wine]
Isaiah 5:18-20
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18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with (A)cords of falsehood,
who draw sin as with cart ropes,
19 who say: (B)“Let him be quick,
let him speed his work
that we may see it;
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near,
and let it come, that we may know it!”
20 Woe to (C)those who call evil good
and good evil,
(D)who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!
Ecclesiastes 8:11
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11 Because (A)the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, (B)the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
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Matthew 11:18-19
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18 For John came (A)neither eating (B)nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ 19 The Son of Man came (C)eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, (D)a friend of (E)tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”[a]
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- Matthew 11:19 Some manuscripts children (compare Luke 7:35)
Malachi 1:6-7
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The Priests' Polluted Offerings
6 (A)“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am (B)a father, where is my honor? And if I am (C)a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. (D)But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ 7 (E)By offering polluted food upon my altar. (F)But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that (G)the Lord's table may be despised.
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Amos 2:13
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13 “Behold, I will press you down in your place,
as a cart full of sheaves presses down.
Ezekiel 16:43
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43 Because you have not remembered (A)the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, (B)I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not (C)committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
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Ezekiel 8:12
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12 Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing (A)in the dark, each (B)in his room of pictures? For they say, (C)‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’”
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Jeremiah 15:6
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6 (A)You have rejected me, declares the Lord;
(B)you keep going backward,
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—
(C)I am weary of relenting.
Isaiah 30:18
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The Lord Will Be Gracious
18 Therefore the Lord (A)waits to be gracious to you,
and therefore he (B)exalts himself to show mercy to you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
(C)blessed are all those who wait for him.
Isaiah 7:13
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13 And he[a] said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you (A)weary my God also?
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- Isaiah 7:13 That is, Isaiah
Isaiah 1:14
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14 Your (A)new moons and your appointed feasts
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
Psalm 95:9-10
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9 when your fathers put me to the (A)test
and put me to the proof, though they had seen my (B)work.
10 (C)For forty years I loathed that generation
and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,
and they have not known (D)my ways.”
Psalm 73:3-15
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4 For they have no pangs until death;
their bodies are fat and sleek.
5 They are not in trouble as others are;
they are not (D)stricken like the rest of mankind.
6 Therefore pride is (E)their necklace;
violence covers them as (F)a garment.
7 Their (G)eyes swell out through fatness;
their hearts overflow with follies.
8 They scoff and (H)speak with malice;
loftily they threaten oppression.
9 They set their mouths against the heavens,
and their tongue struts through the earth.
10 Therefore his people turn back to them,
and find (I)no fault in them.[a]
11 And they say, (J)“How can God know?
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
12 Behold, these are the wicked;
always at ease, they (K)increase in riches.
13 All in vain have I (L)kept my heart clean
and (M)washed my hands in innocence.
14 For all the day long I have been (N)stricken
and (O)rebuked (P)every morning.
15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
I would have betrayed (Q)the generation of your children.
Footnotes
- Psalm 73:10 Probable reading; Hebrew the waters of a full cup are drained by them
Job 36:17
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17 “But you are full of the judgment on the wicked;
judgment and justice seize you.
Job 34:17
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17 (A)Shall one who hates justice govern?
Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
1 Samuel 2:3
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3 Talk no more so very proudly,
let not arrogance come from your mouth;
for the Lord is a God of knowledge,
and by him actions are weighed.
Malachi 3:13-15
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13 (A)“Your words have been hard against me, says the Lord. (B)But you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’ 14 You have said, (C)‘It is vain to serve God. (D)What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts? 15 And now we call (E)the arrogant blessed. (F)Evildoers not only prosper but (G)they put God to the test and they escape.’”
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Malachi 3:8
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8 Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. (A)But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ (B)In your tithes and contributions.
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Malachi 2:14
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14 (A)But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord (B)was witness between you and the wife of your youth, (C)to whom (D)you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
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Ezekiel 9:9
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9 Then he said to me, (A)“The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. (B)The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For (C)they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’
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Psalm 10:11-13
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