Verse 17

Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, And ye have said: `In what have we wearied Him?' In your saying: `Every evil-doer `is' good in the eyes of Jehovah, And in them He is delighting,' Or, `Where `is' the God of judgment?'

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 43:24 : 24 Thou hast not bought for Me with money sweet cane, And `with' the fat of thy sacrifices hast not filled Me, Only -- thou hast caused Me to serve with thy sins, Thou hast wearied Me with thine iniquities.
  • Ps 73:3-9 : 3 The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death, 4 And their might `is' firm. 5 In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued. 6 Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress. 7 Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed; 8 They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak. 9 They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth. 10 Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them. 11 And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?' 12 Lo, these `are' the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength. 13 Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands, 14 And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof `is' every morning. 15 If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.
  • Zeph 1:12 : 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.
  • Eccl 8:11 : 11 Because sentence hath not been done `on' an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.
  • Mal 2:14 : 14 And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.
  • Mal 3:8 : 8 Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: `In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering!
  • Mal 3:13-15 : 13 Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: `What have we spoken against Thee?' 14 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? 15 And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'
  • Matt 11:18-19 : 18 `For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a demon; 19 the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'
  • 2 Pet 3:3-4 : 3 this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on, 4 and saying, `Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;'
  • Isa 1:14 : 14 Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing.
  • Isa 5:18-20 : 18 Wo `to' those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as `with' thick ropes of the cart -- sin. 19 Who are saying, `Let Him hurry, Let Him hasten His work, that we may see, And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel Draw near and come, and we know.' 20 Wo `to' those saying to evil `good,' And to good `evil,' Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
  • Isa 7:13 : 13 And he saith, `Hear, I pray you, O house of David, Is it a little thing for you to weary men, That ye weary also my God?
  • Isa 30:18 : 18 And therefore doth wait Jehovah to favour you, And therefore He is exalted to pity you, For a God of judgment `is' Jehovah, O the blessedness of all waiting for Him.
  • Deut 32:4 : 4 The Rock! -- perfect `is' His work, For all His ways `are' just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and upright `is' He.
  • 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge `is' Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.
  • Job 34:5-9 : 5 For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right, 6 Against my right do I lie? Mortal `is' mine arrow -- without transgression.' 7 Who `is' a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water, 8 And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness. 9 For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
  • Job 34:17 : 17 Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?
  • Job 34:36 : 36 My Father! let Job be tried -- unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,
  • Job 36:17 : 17 And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,
  • Ps 10:11-13 : 11 He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.' 12 Arise, O Jehovah! O God, lift up Thy hand! Forget not the humble. 13 Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, `It is not required.'
  • Mal 1:6-7 : 6 A son honoureth a father, and a servant his master. And if I `am' a father, where `is' Mine honour? And if I `am' a master, where `is' My fear? Said Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests, despising My name! And ye have said: `In what have we despised Thy name?' 7 Ye are bringing nigh on Mine altar polluted bread, And ye have said: `In what have we polluted Thee?' In your saying: `The table of Jehovah -- it `is' despicable,'
  • Ps 95:9-9 : 9 Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work. 10 Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, `A people erring in heart -- they! And they have not known My ways:'
  • Jer 15:6 : 6 Thou -- thou hast left Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Backward thou goest, And I stretch out My hand against thee, And I destroy thee, I have been weary of repenting,
  • Ezek 8:12 : 12 And He saith unto me, `Hast thou seen, son of man, that which elders of the house of Israel are doing in darkness, each in the inner chambers of his imagery, for they are saying, Jehovah is not seeing us, Jehovah hath forsaken the land?'
  • Ezek 9:9 : 9 And He saith unto me, `The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah `is' very very great, and the land is full of blood, and the city hath been full of perverseness, for they have said: Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and Jehovah is not seeing.
  • Ezek 16:43 : 43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, And dost give trouble to Me in all these, Lo, even I also thy way at first gave up, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I did not this thought for all thine abominations.
  • Amos 2:13 : 13 Lo, I am pressing you under, As the full cart doth press for itself a sheaf.