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Malachi 2

Mal. 2:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ye have wearied
yaga` (Hebrew #3021)
properly, to gasp; hence, to be exhausted, to tire, to toil
KJV usage: faint, (make to) labour, (be) weary.
Pronounce: yaw-gah'
Origin: a primitive root
v the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
with your words
dabar (Hebrew #1697)
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, X any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, + chronicles, commandment, X commune(-ication), + concern(-ing), + confer, counsel, + dearth, decree, deed, X disease, due, duty, effect, + eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-)ness, + glory, + harm, hurt, + iniquity, + judgment, language, + lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, X ought, X parts, + pertaining, + please, portion, + power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, X (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, + sign, + so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, + song, speech, X spoken, talk, task, + that, X there done, thing (concerning), thought, + thus, tidings, what(-soever), + wherewith, which, word, work.
Pronounce: daw-baw'
Origin: from 1696
. Yet ye say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Wherein have we wearied
yaga` (Hebrew #3021)
properly, to gasp; hence, to be exhausted, to tire, to toil
KJV usage: faint, (make to) labour, (be) weary.
Pronounce: yaw-gah'
Origin: a primitive root
him? When ye say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Every one that doeth
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
is good
towb (Hebrew #2896)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
KJV usage: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).
Pronounce: tobe
Origin: from 2895
in the sight
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, and he delighteth
chaphets (Hebrew #2654)
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
KJV usage: X any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.
Pronounce: khaw-fates'
Origin: a primitive root
in them; or, Where is the God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
of judgment
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
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Isa. 43:24• 24Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast made me to toil with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. (Isa. 43:24)
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Amos 2:13• 13Behold, I will press upon you, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves. (Amos 2:13)

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wearied.
Psa. 95:9‑10• 9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
 10Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways; (Psa. 95:9‑10)
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Isa. 1:14• 14Your new moons and your set feasts my soul hateth: they are a burden to me; I am wearied of bearing them. (Isa. 1:14)
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Isa. 7:13• 13And he said, Hear then, house of David: Is it a small matter for you to weary men, that ye weary also my God? (Isa. 7:13)
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Isa. 43:24• 24Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast made me to toil with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. (Isa. 43:24)
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Jer. 15:6• 6Thou hast cast me off, saith Jehovah, thou art gone backward; and I have stretched out my hand against thee, and will destroy thee: I am become weary of repenting. (Jer. 15:6)
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Ezek. 16:43• 43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast raged against me in all these things, behold, therefore, I also will recompense thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou shalt not commit this lewdness besides all thine abominations. (Ezek. 16:43)
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Amos 2:13• 13Behold, I will press upon you, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves. (Amos 2:13)
Wherein.
Mal. 2:14• 14Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. (Mal. 2:14)
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Mal. 1:6‑7• 6A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, priests, that despise my name. But ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
 7Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of Jehovah is contemptible. (Mal. 1:6‑7)
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Mal. 3:8• 8Will a man rob God? But ye rob me. And ye say, Wherein do we rob thee? In tithes and heave-offerings. (Mal. 3:8)
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Mal. 3:13‑15• 13Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah; but ye say, What have we been speaking against thee?
 14Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
 15And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape. (Mal. 3:13‑15)
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Job 34:5‑9,17,36• 5For Job hath said, I am righteous, and *God hath taken away my judgment:
 6Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable without transgression.
 7What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,
 8And goeth in company with workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
 9For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.
 17Should he that hateth right indeed govern? and wilt thou condemn the All-just?
 36Would that Job may be tried unto the end, because of his answers after the manner of evil men! (Job 34:5‑9,17,36)
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Job 36:17• 17But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee. (Job 36:17)
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Psa. 73:3‑15• 3For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked.
 4For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;
 5They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like other men:
 6Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them as a garment;
 7Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:
 8They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:
 9They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
 10Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness are wrung out to them.
 11And they say, How can *God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?
 12Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.
 13Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:
 14For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
 15If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children. (Psa. 73:3‑15)
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Matt. 11:18‑19• 18For John has come neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a demon.
 19The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a man that is eating and wine-drinking, a friend of tax-gatherers, and of sinners:--and wisdom has been justified by her children. (Matt. 11:18‑19)
Where.
Deut. 32:4• 4He is the Rock, his work is perfect, For all his ways are righteousness; A *God of faithfulness without deceit, Just and right is he. (Deut. 32:4)
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1 Sam. 2:3• 3Do not multiply your words of pride, let not vain-glory come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a *God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. (1 Sam. 2:3)
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Psa. 10:11‑13• 11He saith in his heart, *God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see it.
 12Arise, Jehovah; O *God, lift up thy hand: forget not the afflicted.
 13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. (Psa. 10:11‑13)
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Eccl. 8:11• 11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil. (Eccl. 8:11)
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Isa. 5:18‑19• 18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with cart-ropes!
 19who say, Let him hasten, let him speed his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! (Isa. 5:18‑19)
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Isa. 30:18• 18And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he lift himself up, that he may have mercy upon you; for Jehovah is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. (Isa. 30:18)
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Ezek. 8:12• 12And he said unto me, Hast thou seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every one in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah hath forsaken the land. (Ezek. 8:12)
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Ezek. 9:9• 9And he said unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness; for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the earth, and Jehovah seeth not. (Ezek. 9:9)
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Zeph. 1:12• 12And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men that are settled on their lees, that say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, neither will he do evil. (Zeph. 1:12)
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2 Peter 3:3‑4• 3knowing this first, that there shall come at the close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,
 4and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from the beginning of the creation. (2 Peter 3:3‑4)
• The last verse of Malachi 2, as we have pointed out, introduces the subject of Malachi 3, wherein another phase is taken up of the moral state of the corrupted remnant. (“Malachi 3” by E. Dennett)
• The truth was, they were in the path of self-justification, excusing themselves, and laying the blame of everything on God—sure evidence of their own backsliding....So blind were they in their self-righteousness, that they ventured to accuse God of unrighteousness, insinuating that He could not discern between good and evil. (“Malachi 3” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, and ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?