Malachi 3:14

Young's Literal Translation 1862

Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

Cross References

Job 22:17

Those saying to God, `Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?

Job 34:9

For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

Job 35:3

For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

Isaiah 43:22

And Me thou hast not called, O Jacob, For thou hast been wearied of me, O Israel,

Isaiah 58:3

`Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact.

Jeremiah 18:12

And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do.

Jeremiah 2:25

Withhold thy foot from being unshod, And thy throat from thirst, And thou sayest, `It is incurable, No, for I have loved strangers, and after them I go.'

Jeremiah 44:18

`And from the time we have ceased to make perfume to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out to her libations, we have lacked all, and by sword and by famine we have been consumed,

Hosea 7:16

They turn back -- not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Fall by sword do their princes, From the insolence of their tongue, This `is' their derision in the land of Egypt!

Joel 2:12

And also now -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Turn ye back unto Me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, And with lamentation.

Zephaniah 1:12

And it hath come to pass, at that time, I search Jerusalem with lights, And I have laid a charge on the men Who are hardened on their preserved things, Who are saying in their heart: Jehovah doth no good, nor doth He evil.

Malachi 3:13

Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: `What have we spoken against Thee?'

James 4:9

be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;