Malachi 2:17

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Ye haue weeryed the Lord with your wordes, and you haue sayde, Wherein haue we weeried him? Whylest you say, Euery one that doth euil, is good in the sight of the Lorde, and he is pleased in them: or where is the God of iudgement?

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  • Isa 43:24 : 24 Thou boughtest me no deare spice with thy money, neither powredst the fat of thy sacrifices vpon me: but thou hast laden me with thy sinnes, and weeried me with thy vngodlynesse.
  • Ps 73:3-9 : 3 For I enuied at the case of the foolishe: I sawe the wicked flowe in all kynde of prosperitie. 4 For there be no bondes of death that can holde them: and the galaries of their houses be strong. 5 They come in no misfortune lyke other folke: neither are they plagued lyke other men. 6 And this is the cause that pride compasse them rounde about: and crueltie couereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: and the cogitations of their heartes do passe from them. 8 They make other dissolute, they speake oppression with iniurie: they talke proudely and presumptuously. 9 For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde. 10 Therfore God his people turneth thither: and there is drawen vnto them waters in a full cuppe. 11 And they say, howe shoulde God perceaue it? is there knowledge in the most hyghest? 12 Lo these vngodly and fortunate in the worlde: do possesse riches. 13 Truely I haue cleansed my heart in vayne: and wasshed my handes in innocencie. 14 All the day long I haue ben scourged: and chastened euery mornyng. 15 If I shoulde say that I woulde iudge after this sort: lo then I shoulde condempne the generation of thy children.
  • Zeph 1:12 : 12 At the same time will I searche Hierusalem with lanternes, and visite them that continue in their dregges, and say in their heartes, Tush, the Lorde will do neither good nor euyll.
  • Eccl 8:11 : 11 Because nowe that euyll workes are not hastyly punished, the heart of man geueth hym selfe ouer vnto wickednesse.
  • Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet ye say, wherin? Because the Lord hath ben witnesse betweene thee and thy wyfe of thy youth, against whom thou hast transgressed, yet is she thyne owne companion, and the wyfe of thy couenaunt.
  • Mal 3:8 : 8 Wyll a man spoyle his Gods? yet ye haue spoyled me: and ye say, Wherein haue we spoyled thee? In tythes and offeringes?
  • Mal 3:13-15 : 13 Your wordes haue ben stout against me saith the lorde: and you saide, Wherein haue we spoken against thee? 14 Ye haue saide: it is but vayne to serue God, and what profite is it that we haue kept his commaundement, & that we haue walked humbly before the face of the Lorde of hoastes? 15 And nowe we call the proude happie: yea the workers of wickednesse are set vp, and also they that tempt God, yea they are deliuered.
  • Matt 11:18-19 : 18 For Iohn came neither eatyng nor drinking, and they say, he hath the deuil. 19 The sonne of man came eatyng and drinking, and they say, behold a glutton and an vnmeasurable drinker of wine, and a friende vnto publicans & sinners: And wisdome is iustified of her children.
  • 2 Pet 3:3-4 : 3 This first vnderstande, that there shall come in the laste dayes mockers, whiche wyll walke after their owne lustes, 4 And say: Where is the promise of his commyng? For sence the fathers dyed, all thynges continue a lyke from the begynnyng of the creation.
  • Isa 1:14 : 14 I hate your newe moones and appoynted feastes euen from my very heart, they make me weery, I can not abyde them.
  • Isa 5:18-20 : 18 Wo be vnto them that drawe wickednesse with cordes of vanitie, and sinne as it were with a cart rope. 19 Which vse to speake on this maner, Let hym make speede and hasten his worke, that we may see it: let the counsayle of the holy one of Israel come and drawe nye, that we may knowe it. 20 Wo be vnto them that call euyll good, and good euyll, which make darknesse lyght, and lyght darknesse, that make sowre sweete, and sweete sowre.
  • Isa 7:13 : 13 The prophete aunswered, Then heare ye of the house of Dauid: Is it not inough for you that ye be greeuous vnto me, but ye must greeue my God also?
  • Isa 30:18 : 18 Therefore doth the Lorde cause you to wayte, that he may haue mercy vpon you, to the entent that he may haue the preeminence when he is gratious vnto you: For the Lord is the God of iudgement, Blessed are all they that hope in hym.
  • Deut 32:4 : 4 Perfect is the worke of the most mightie God, for all his wayes are iudgement: He is a God of trueth, without wickednesse, righteous and iust is he.
  • 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Talke no more proudly, let not arrogancie come out of your mouthes: for the Lorde is a God of knowledge, and his purposes come to passe.
  • Job 34:5-9 : 5 And why? Iob hath sayd, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my iudgement. 6 In my right I shoulde be a lyer: my wounde is incurable without my fault. 7 Where is there such a one as Iob, that drinketh vp scornefulnesse like water? 8 Which goeth in the companie of wicked doers, and walketh with vngodly men? 9 For he hath sayde, It profiteth a man nothing that he shoulde walke with God.
  • Job 34:17 : 17 May he be a ruler that loueth not right? or may he that is a very innocent man do vngodly?
  • Job 34:36 : 36 O father, let Iob be well tryed, because he hath aunswered for wicked men:
  • Job 36:17 : 17 Neuerthelesse, thou hast commended the iudgement of the vngodly, and euen such a iudgement & sentence shalt thou suffer.
  • Ps 10:11-13 : 11 He sayeth in his heart, tushe, the Lord hath forgotten: he hydeth away his face, and he wyll neuer see it. 12 Aryse vp O Lorde God: lift vp thine hande, forget not the afflicted. 13 Wherefore shoulde the wicked blaspheme the Lorde: whyle he sayeth in his heart, that thou wylt not call to accompt?
  • Mal 1:6-7 : 6 A sonne honoureth his father, and a seruaunt his maister: If then I be a father, where is myne honour? if I be a maister, where is my feare? Saith the Lorde God of hoastes to you O ye pristes that despise my name, and ye say, Wherein haue we despised thy name? 7 Ye offer vpon myne aulter vncleane bread, and say, Wherein haue we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the Lorde is not to be regarded.
  • Ps 95:9-9 : 9 When your fathers tempted me, proued me: yea after they had seene my worke. 10 Fourtie yeres long was I greeued with that generation: and I sayde this people erreth in heart, and they haue not knowen my wayes.
  • Jer 15:6 : 6 Seing thou goest from me, and turnest backwarde, saith the Lorde: therfore I dyd stretche out myne hande against thee to destroy thee, and I haue ben sorie for thee so long that I am weerie.
  • Ezek 8:12 : 12 Then sayde he vnto me, Thou sonne of man, hast thou seene what the auncientes of the house of Israel do secretly, euery one in the chaumber of his imagerie? for they say, The Lorde seeth vs not, the Lorde hath forsaken the earth.
  • Ezek 9:9 : 9 Then sayde he vnto me, The wickednesse of the house of Israel and Iuda is exceedyng great: so that the lande is full of blood, & the citie full of reuoltyng from God for they say, The Lorde hath forsaken the earth, and the Lorde seeth it not.
  • Ezek 16:43 : 43 Seing thou remembrest not the dayes of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these thinges: beholde therfore, I wyll bryng thyne owne wayes vpon thy head saith the Lord God, so that thou shalt not commit any more mischiefe vpon all thyne abhominations.
  • Amos 2:13 : 13 Beholde, I am pressed vnder you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaues.

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    13 Your wordes haue ben stout against me saith the lorde: and you saide, Wherein haue we spoken against thee?

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  • Mal 1:12-13
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    12 But ye haue polluted it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted, & the fruite thereof, euen his meate is not to be regarded.

    13 And ye saide, beholde it is a weerynesse, and you haue snuffed at it saith the Lorde of hoastes, and ye haue offered the stolne, and the lame, and the sicke, ye haue offered an offering: shoulde I accept this of your handes, saith the lorde?

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    6 A sonne honoureth his father, and a seruaunt his maister: If then I be a father, where is myne honour? if I be a maister, where is my feare? Saith the Lorde God of hoastes to you O ye pristes that despise my name, and ye say, Wherein haue we despised thy name?

    7 Ye offer vpon myne aulter vncleane bread, and say, Wherein haue we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the Lorde is not to be regarded.

    8 When ye bring the blinde for sacrifice, you say it is not euil: and when ye bring the lame and sicke, you say it is not euil: offer it nowe to thy prince, wyll he be content with thee, or accept thy person, saith the Lorde of hoastes?

    9 And now I pray you, pray before God, that he may haue mercie vpon vs: (this euill hath ben done by your meanes) wyll he regarde your persons, saith the Lorde of hoastes?

  • Jer 16:10
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    10 Nowe when thou shewest this people all these wordes, and they say vnto thee, Wherfore hath the Lord deuised all this great plague for vs? or what is the offence and sinne that we haue done agaynst the Lorde our God?

  • Mal 2:13-14
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    13 And this againe haue ye done, in couering the aulter of the Lorde with teares, with weeping and mourning, and therfore there is no more respect to the offring, neither acceptable receauing of it at your handes.

    14 Yet ye say, wherin? Because the Lord hath ben witnesse betweene thee and thy wyfe of thy youth, against whom thou hast transgressed, yet is she thyne owne companion, and the wyfe of thy couenaunt.

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    17 I smote you with blasting, and with mildeawe, and with hayle, in all the worke of your handes, and you turned not vnto me, sayth the Lorde.

  • Jer 2:5
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    5 Thus saith the Lorde, What vnfaithfulnesse founde your fathers in me, that they went so farre away fro me, fallyng to lightnesse, and beyng so vayne?

  • Mal 2:8-9
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    8 But ye haue gone out of the way, ye haue caused many to fall by the lawe: ye haue corrupted the couenaunt of Leui, saith the Lorde of hoastes.

    9 Therefore haue I also made you despised and vyle before all the people, because you kept not my wayes, but haue ben parciall in the lawe.

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    17 Therefore shall the Lorde haue no pleasure in their young men, neither haue pitie of their fatherlesse and wydowes: for they are altogether hypocrites and wicked, and al their mouthes speake folly: After all this is not the Lordes wrath ceassed, but yet his hand is stretched out styll.

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  • Jer 25:7
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    7 Neuerthelesse, ye woulde not heare me saith the Lorde, but haue prouoked me to anger with the workes of your handes, to your great harme.

  • Isa 1:12
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    12 When ye come to appeare before me treadyng in my courtes, who hath required this at your handes?

  • Isa 1:10
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    10 Heare the worde of the Lord ye lordes of Sodoma, and hearken vnto the lawe of our God thou people of Gomorra.

  • Jer 23:36-37
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    36 And as for the burthen of the Lorde, ye shall speake no more of it, for euery mans owne worde is his burthen: because ye haue altred the wordes of the liuing God, the Lorde of hoastes, our God.

    37 Thus shall euery man say to the prophetes: what aunswere hath the Lorde geuen thee? or what saith the Lorde?

  • Dan 9:14
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    14 Therfore hath the Lord watched vpon the plague, and brought it vpon vs: for the Lorde our God is righteous in all his workes which he doth: for we would not hearken vnto his voyce.

  • Mic 6:3
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    3 O my people what haue I done vnto thee? or wherein haue I greeued thee? geue me aunswere.

  • Mic 2:7
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    7 O thou that art named the house of Iacob, is the spirite of the Lorde shortened? are these his workes? are not my words good vnto him that walketh vprightly?

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    15 The Lorde hateth as well hym that iustifieth the vngodly, as him that condempneth the innocent.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8 Wherefore the wrath of the Lorde fell on Iuda & Hierusalem, and he hath brought them to trouble to be wondred on, & to be hissed at, euen as ye see with your eyes.

  • Ezek 33:17
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    17 And yet the children of thy people say, the way of the Lorde is not equall: but their owne way is rather vnequall.

  • Hab 1:13
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    13 Thou art of pure eyes, and canst not see euyl, thou canst not behold wickednesse: wherfore then doest thou loke vpo the transgressours, and holdest thy tongue, when the wicked deuoureth the man that is more righteous then he?

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
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    18 But to the king of Iuda whiche sent you to aske counsell of the Lord, so shall ye say: Thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel, as touching the wordes whiche ye haue hearde:

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    17 Learne to do well, applie your selues to equitie, deliuer the oppressed, helpe the fatherlesse to his ryght, let the widdowes complaynt come before you:

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    26 And as for the king of Iuda which sent you to enquire of the Lord, so shal ye say vnto him: thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel, concerning the wordes whiche thou hast hearde.

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    15 Beholde, these men say vnto me, where is the worde of the Lorde? let it come nowe.

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    11 (The heades therof iudge for rewards, and the priestes thereof teache for hyre, and the prophetes thereof prophecie for money: yet wyll they leane vpon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among vs? no euill can come vpon vs.)

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    15 Yea the trueth is taken away, and he that refraineth hym selfe from euyll, must be spoyled: When the Lorde sawe this, it displeased hym sore that there was no equitie.

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    15 What meane ye that ye bray as in a morter my people, and grinde the faces of the poore? saith the Lorde God of hoastes.

  • Isa 58:3
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    3 Wherefore fast we say they and thou seest it not? we put our liues to straitnesse, and thou regardest it not?

  • Hab 2:13
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    13 Behold, is it not of the Lord of hoastes that the people shall labour in the very fire? the people shall euen weery them selues for very vanitie.

  • Hos 4:1
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    1 Heare the worde of the Lorde O ye chyldren of Israel, for the Lord hath a controuersie with the inhabitauntes of the lande: for there is no trueth, there is no mercy, there is no knowledge of God in the lande.

  • Hag 1:7
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    7 Thus sayth the Lorde of hoastes, Consider your owne wayes in your heartes.

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
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    16 Thus sayth the Lorde: Behold, I wil bring euyll vpon this place, and on the inhabiters therof, euen all the wordes of the booke whiche the king of Iuda hath read:

  • Jer 15:6
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    6 Seing thou goest from me, and turnest backwarde, saith the Lorde: therfore I dyd stretche out myne hande against thee to destroy thee, and I haue ben sorie for thee so long that I am weerie.

  • Jer 2:9
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    9 Wherfore I am constrayned, saith the Lorde, yet agayne to contende in iudgement with you, and with your childers children.

  • Joel 2:17
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    17 Let the priestes the Lordes ministers weepe betwixt the porche & the aulter, and let them say, Spare thy people O Lord, and geue not ouer thine heritage to reproche, that the heathen shoulde rule ouer them: Wherfore shoulde they say amongst the heathen, Where is their God?

  • Neh 13:18
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    18 Dyd not your fathers euen thus, and our God brought all this plague vpon vs, and vpon this citie? And ye make the wrath more yet vpon Israel, in that ye breake the Sabbath?