Malachi 2:17

Tree of Life Version

You wearied Adonai with your words. Yet you say: “How did we weary Him?” When you say: “Everyone doing evil is good in the sight of Adonai, and He delights in them.” Or, “Where is the God of justice?”

Cross References

Isaiah 43:24

You have not spent money buying Me aromatic cane, nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. Rather you burdened Me with your sins, wearied Me with your iniquities.

Zephaniah 1:12

At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men whose spirits have hardened, who say in their hearts, ‘Adonai will do neither good nor evil.’

Ecclesiastes 8:11

When the sentence against a crime is not swiftly carried out, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.

Amos 2:13

Behold! I will cause a tottering beneath you as a cart totters when full of sheaves.

Ezekiel 16:43

“Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but have enraged Me in all these things, behold, I will also bring your way on your head”—it is a declaration of Adonai. “Have you not committed this wickedness on top of all your abominations?

Ezekiel 8:12

Then He said to me: “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chamber of his carved idol? For they say, ‘Adonai does not see us. Adonai has forsaken the land.’”

Jeremiah 15:6

You have cast Me off” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “You keep going backward! So I stretch out My hand against you and will destroy you. I am weary with relenting.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore Adonai is longing to be gracious to you. Thus He will be exalted, so He may have mercy on you. For Adonai is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him.

Isaiah 7:13

Then he said, “Hear now, house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men? Will you also weary my God?

Isaiah 1:14

Your New Moons and your Festivals My soul hates! They are a burden to Me. I am weary to bear them.

Job 36:17

But you are full of judgment on the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you!

Job 34:17

Can someone who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the mighty, righteous One?

1 Samuel 2:3

Boast no more so proudly— insolence comes out of your mouth. For Adonai is the all-knowing God, and by Him deeds are weighed.

Malachi 3:8

“Will a man rob God? For you are robbing Me!” But you say: “How have we robbed You?” “In the tithe and the offering.

Malachi 2:14

Yet you say, “Why?” Because Adonai bears witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have treated deceitfully. Yet she had been your companion and your wife by covenant.

Ezekiel 9:9

He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great; the land is full of blood and the city is full of corruption. For they say, ‘Adonai has forsaken the land, Adonai does not see!’

Job 34:36

Oh, that Job might be tested to the end, for answering like wicked men.

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock—blameless is His work. Indeed, all His ways are just. God of faithfulness without iniquity, righteous and upright is He.

Job 9:24

If the land falls into the hand of the wicked He blindfolds the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

Isaiah 29:15

Oy , those who go to great depths to hide their plans from Adonai! Their works are in the dark. They say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”

Isaiah 43:22

Yet you have not called on Me, Jacob, for you have been weary of Me, Israel.

Jeremiah 17:15

Look, they are saying to me, “Where is the word of Adonai? Let it come now!”

Jeremiah 44:22

Then Adonai could no longer endure it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations that you committed! So your land has become a wasteland, a desolation and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

Ezekiel 18:25

“Yet you say, ‘Adonai’s way is unfair!’ Hear now, house of Israel! Is My way not fair? Is it not your ways that are unfair?

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, Adonai, when I plead my case with You. Yet I speak with You about justice. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the treacherous thrive?