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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 am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. (Amos 2:13)

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wearied.
Psa. 95:9‑10• 9When your fathers tempted me,{HR}Proved me, and saw my work.
 10Forty years long was I disgusted with the generation and said,{HR}A people erring in heart [are] they,{HR}And they have not known my ways, (Psa. 95:9‑10)
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Isa. 1:14• 14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [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 forsaken me, saith Jehovah, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. (Jer. 15:6)
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Ezek. 16:43• 43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord Jehovah: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations. (Ezek. 16:43)
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Amos 2:13• 13Behold I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. (Amos 2:13)
Wherein.
Mal. 2:14• 14Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: 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, O priests, that despise my name. And 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? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. (Mal. 3:8)
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Mal. 3:13‑15• 13Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
 14Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
 15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. (Mal. 3:13‑15)
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Job 34:5‑9,17,36• 5For Job hath said, I am righteous,{HR}And God [El] hath turned aside my right:
 6Against my right I shall lie.{HR}My wound [is] mortal, without transgression.
 7Who [is] a man like Job?{HR}He drinketh mockery like water,
 8And goeth in company with workers of iniquity,{HR}So as to go with men of wickedness;
 9For he hath said, It profiteth not a man{HR}That he should delight himself with God.
 17Yea, doth a hater of right govern?{HR}And wilt thou condemn the mighty just One?
 36Would that Job were proved to the uttermost,{HR}Because of replies like men of iniquity; (Job 34:5‑9,17,36)
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Job 36:17• 17But hast thou filled up the judgment of the wicked?{HR}Judgment and justice will take hold. (Job 36:17)
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Psa. 73:3‑15• 3For I was envious at the arrogant (fools),{HR}Seeing the peace of wicked (men).
 4For [there are] no pangs in their death,{HR}And their strength [is] firm (fat).
 5In the hardships of men they [are] not,{HR}And with mankind are not smitten.
 6Therefore hath pride enchained them,{HR}A garment of violence covereth them.
 7Their eyes stand out with fatness,{HR}The imaginations of their heart overflow.
 8They mock and speak wickedly of oppression;{HR}From on high they speak.
 9They set their mouth in the heavens,{HR}And their tongue walketh in the earth.
 10Therefore his people turn hither,{HR}And waters of fullness are wrung out to them.
 11And they say, How should God (El) know?{HR}And is there knowledge in the Most High?
 12Behold, these [are] wicked and prosperous forever;{HR}They increase in substance.
 13Truly in vain I have cleansed my heart{HR}And washed my hands in innocency;
 14And I was smitten all the day,{HR}And my rebuking [is] at the mornings.
 15If I have said, I will declare thus, behold,{HR}I have offended the generation of thy sons. (Psa. 73:3‑15)
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Matt. 11:18‑19• 18{i}For John has come neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a demon.{/i}
 19{i}The 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.{/i} (Matt. 11:18‑19)
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Deut. 32:4• 4{i}He is the Rock{/i}, his doing is perfect:{HR}For all his ways are judgment:{HR}A God of truth without iniquity,{HR}Just and right is he. (Deut. 32:4)
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1 Sam. 2:3• 3Talk no more so exceeding proudly;{HR}Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth:{HR}For Jehovah is a God of knowledge,{HR}And by him actions are weighed. (1 Sam. 2:3)
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Psa. 10:11‑13• 11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten,{HR}He hath hidden his face;{HR}He will not see forever.
 12Arise, O Jehovah; O God,{HR}Lift up thy hand;{HR}Forget not the afflicted.
 13Wherefore hath the wicked [man] despised God?{HR}He hath said in his heart,{HR}Thou wilt not require (Psa. 10:11‑13)
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Eccl. 8:11• 11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily,{HR}Therefore the heart of the sons 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 it were with a cart rope; that say,
 19Let him make speed, let him hasten 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• 12Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah hath forsaken the earth. (Ezek. 8:12)
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Ezek. 9:9• 9Then said he 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 candles, {i}and punish the men that are settled on their lees, that{/i} 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 in the last of the days mockers shall come with mockery walking according to their own lusts,
 4and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the [day] that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue thus from beginning of 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?

W. Kelly Translation

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Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words; yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When 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?