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Malachi 2:17

Malachi 2:17
Ye have wearied the LORD 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 the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Ye have wearied the Lord with your words,.... As well as with their actions; see Isa 43:24 this is said after the manner of men, they saying those things which were displeasing and provoking to him,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Ye have wearied the Lord with your words - o “By your blasphemous words, full of unbelief and mistrust, you have in a manner wearied God. He speaks of God, after the manner of men, as a man afflicted…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Malachi 2:10-17

Corrupt practices are the genuine fruit and product of corrupt principles; and the badness of men's hearts and lives is owing to some loose atheistical notions which they have got and which they…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Mal 2:17 to Mal 3:6. Rebuke of the people for profane impiety

17. With another abrupt transition the prophet passes to a new though cognate subject. The abuses in connection with Divine worship and…