Maleakhi 3:14

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Kamu berkata: "Adalah sia-sia beribadah kepada Allah. Apakah untungnya kita memelihara apa yang harus dilakukan terhadap-Nya dan berjalan dengan pakaian berkabung di hadapan TUHAN semesta alam?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kamu berkata: "Adalah sia-sia beribadah kepada Allah. Apakah untungnya kita memelihara apa yang harus dilakukan terhadap-Nya dan berjalan dengan pakaian berkabung di hadapan TUHAN semesta alam?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bahwa katamu: Cuma-cuma juga berbuat ibadat kepada Allah! Dan apakah faedahnya kami melakukan pengawalannya dan kami berpakaikan kain perkabungan di hadapan hadirat Tuhan serwa sekalian alam!

Contextual Overview

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. ¹⁶ Then they that feared God, saide euery one to his neighbour: and the Lorde considered and hearde, and there was written a booke of remebraunce before him for them that feared the Lorde, and for them that thinke vpon his name. ¹⁷ And they shalbe to me, saith the Lorde of hoastes, in that day wherein I shall do [iudgement,] a stocke: and I wyl spare them as a man spareth his owne sonne which serueth him. ¹⁸ Then shall ye returne, and discerne betweene the iust and the wicked, betweene him that serueth God, and him that serueth him not.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

It is: Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Job 22:17, Job 34:9, Job 35:3, Psalms 73:8-13, Isaiah 58:3, Zephaniah 1:12

ordinance: Heb. observation

and that: Isaiah 58:3, Joel 2:12, Zechariah 7:3-6, James 4:9

mournfully: Heb. in black

Reciprocal: Genesis 25:32 - and what Exodus 5:9 - vain words Numbers 11:11 - Wherefore hast thou Job 1:11 - and he will curse thee Job 2:9 - retain Psalms 58:11 - Verily there is Psalms 73:13 - Verily Isaiah 43:22 - thou hast been Isaiah 45:19 - Seek Ezekiel 11:5 - Thus have Malachi 1:2 - Wherein Malachi 1:6 - And ye Malachi 3:18 - shall Matthew 6:16 - be Matthew 15:9 - in Matthew 20:12 - borne Matthew 25:24 - I knew Mark 7:7 - in vain Mark 8:36 - profit Luke 15:29 - yet Luke 19:21 - because Romans 3:1 - advantage 1 Corinthians 15:32 - what James 1:26 - this

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
And the serpent was suttiller then euery beast of the fielde which ye lord God hadde made, and he sayde vnto the woman: yea, hath God saide, ye shall not eate of euery tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:15
I wyll also put enmitie betweene thee & the woman, betweene thy seede and her seede: and it shall treade downe thy head, and thou shalt treade vpon his heele.

Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wyfes name Heua, because she was the mother of all lyuyng.

Genesis 9:6
Who so sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.

Leviticus 20:25
And therefore shall ye put difference betweene cleane beastes and vncleane, betweene vncleane foules and cleane: Ye shal not defile your soules in beastes and foules, and in all maner creeping thinges that the grounde bryngeth foorth, whiche I haue seperated from you as vncleane.

Psalms 72:9
They that dwell in the wildernesse shal kneele before him: his enemies shal licke the dust.

Isaiah 29:4
Thou shalt be brought downe, and shalt speake out of the ground, and thy speache shall go lowe out of the dust: Thy voyce also shall come out of the grounde lyke the voyce of a witche, and thy talkyng shall whisper out of the dust:

Isaiah 65:25
The woolfe and the lambe shal feede together, and the lion shall eate hay like the bullocke, but earth shalbe the serpentes meate: There shal no man hurt nor slay another in al my holy hill, saith the Lorde.

Micah 7:17
They shal licke the dust like a serpente, and as the wormes of the earth that tremble in their holes: they shalbe afrayde of the Lorde our God, and they shall feare thee.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye have said, it [is] vain to serve God,.... This they said in their hearts, if not with their lips, that it was a vain thing for a man to serve God; he got nothing by it; he had no reward for it; it fared no better with him than the wicked; nay, the wicked fared better than he; and therefore who would be a worshipper of God? see

Job 21:15. Abarbinel understands this also with respect to God, who is worshipped; to whom worship, say these men, is no ways profitable, nor does he regard it; see Job 35:7 and therefore it is in vain to serve him, since neither he, nor we, are the better for it:

and what profit [is it] that we have kept his ordinance; or "his observation" n; that is, have observed that which he commanded to be observed; this respects not any single and particular ordinance, but every ordinance of God: the Sadducees of those times seem designed, who denied the resurrection of the dead, and a future state of rewards and punishments, and so might well conclude it in vain to serve God:

and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? or "in black" o; which is the habit of mourners; see Psalms 38:6 with an humble spirit, as Jarchi interprets it; or with humiliation (or contrition) of spirit, as the Targum, which paraphrases the whole verse thus,

"ye have said, he gains nothing who worships before the Lord; and what mammon (or riches) do we gain because we have kept the observation of his word, and because we have walked in contrition of spirit before the Lord of hosts?''

Aben Ezra and Abarbinel seem to understand this last clause of their being afflicted and suffering for the sake of religion, and which they endured in vain, seeing they were not respected and rewarded for it; but the other sense is best, which represents them as sincere penitents, and humble worshippers of God in their own account, and yet were not taken notice of by him: it seems to describe the Pharisees, who disfigured their faces, and affected down looks and sorrowful countenances p.

n משמרתו "observationem ejus", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius "observantiam ejus", Cocceius. o קדרנית "atrate", Junius Tremellius, Piscator so Stockius, p. 926; "pullati", Tigurine version; "atrati", Cocceius. p The word is used by Josephus ben Gorion for sincere walking, l. 6. c. 20. p. 612. Vid. Not. Breithaupt. in ib.; it is interpreted "humbly" by R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 102. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye have said, It is vain to serve the God - ^o “as receiving no gain or reward for their service. This is the judgment of the world, whereby worldlings think pious, just, sincere, strict men, vain, i. e., especially when they see them impoverished, despised, oppressed, afflicted, because they know not the true goods of virtue and eternal glory, but measure all things by sight, sense and taste. Truly, if the righteous had not hope of another and better life, in vain would they afflict themselves, and bear the afflictions of others. For, as the Apostle says 1 Corinthians 15:19. ‘If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.’ But now, hoping for another blessed and eternal life for the slight tribulations of this, we are the happiest of all men.”

And we have walked mournfully - ^o Again they take in their mouths the words of Psalmists, that they took the garb of mourners, going about mourning before God for their country’s afflictions.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Malachi 3:14. Ye have said, It is vain to serve God — They strove to destroy the Divine worship; they asserted that it was vanity; that, if they performed acts of worship, they should be nothing the better; and if they abstained, they should be nothing the worse. This was their teaching to the people.

Walked mournfully — Even repentance they have declared to be useless. This was a high pitch of ungodliness; but see what follows; behold the general conclusions of these reprobates-