Malachi 3:14

Tree of Life Version

You say: “Serving God is worthless.” Also: “What good is it that we kept His service or that we walked as mourners before Adonai-Tzva’ot?

Cross References

Job 22:17

They said to God, ‘Leave us alone! What can Shaddai do to us?’

Job 34:9

For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’

Job 35:3

For you ask, ‘What will it profit you?’ and ‘What do I gain by not sinning?’

Isaiah 43:22

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

Isaiah 58:3

“Why have we fasted. yet You do not see? Why have we afflicted our souls, yet You take no notice?” “Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and exploit all your laborers.

Jeremiah 18:12

But they say: ‘It’s hopeless! So we will walk after our own plans, and each of us will act in the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

Jeremiah 2:25

Do not run while your feet are bare and your throat is thirsty. But you said ‘There is no hope! No! For I have loved foreign gods and I will go after them.’

Jeremiah 44:18

But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.

Hosea 7:16

They will turn back—only not upwards. They are like a treacherous bow. Their princes will fall by the sword because of the insolence with their tongues. This will be for their ridicule in the land of Egypt.

Joel 2:12

“Yet even now” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping and lamenting.”

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.’

Malachi 3:13

“Your words against Me are grievous,” says Adonai. Yet you say: “What did we say against You?”

James 4:9

Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom.