Malachia 2:17

La Riveduta Bibbia

Voi stancate l’Eterno con le vostre parole, eppur dite: "In che lo stanchiamo noi?" In questo, che dite: "Chiunque fa il male è gradito all’Eterno, il quale prende piacere in lui!" o quando dite: "Dov’è l’Iddio di giustizia?"

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Voi stancate lEterno con le vostre parole, eppure dite: "In che cosa lo abbiamo stancato?". Perch voi dite: "Chiunque fa il male gradito allEterno, che si compiace in lui", oppure: "Dov il DIO della giustizia?".

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
VOI avete travagliato il Signore con le vostre parole; e pur dite: In che l’abbiamo travagliato? In ciò che voi dite: Chiunque fa male piace al Signore, ed egli prende diletto in tali; ovvero: Ov’è l’Iddio del giudicio?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wearied: Psalms 95:9, Psalms 95:10, Isaiah 1:14, Isaiah 7:13, Isaiah 43:24, Jeremiah 15:6, Ezekiel 16:43, Amos 2:13

Wherein: Malachi 2:14, Malachi 1:6, Malachi 1:7, Malachi 3:8

Every: Malachi 3:13-15, Job 34:5-9, Job 34:17, Job 34:36, Job 36:17, Psalms 73:3-15, Matthew 11:18, Matthew 11:19

Where: Deuteronomy 32:4, 1 Samuel 2:3, Psalms 10:11-13, Ecclesiastes 8:11, Isaiah 5:18, Isaiah 5:19, Isaiah 30:18, Ezekiel 8:12, Ezekiel 9:9, Zephaniah 1:12, 2 Peter 3:3, 2 Peter 3:4

Reciprocal: Job 22:3 - any pleasure Job 24:12 - yet God Psalms 5:4 - God Psalms 58:11 - verily he Isaiah 5:20 - them Isaiah 29:15 - Who seeth Isaiah 40:27 - my judgment Jeremiah 44:22 - could Ezekiel 18:25 - way Hosea 12:8 - they Malachi 1:2 - Wherein Malachi 3:5 - I will come Malachi 3:15 - yea Matthew 25:44 - when Luke 11:42 - and pass

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye have wearied the Lord with your words,.... As well as with their actions; see Isaiah 43:24 this is said after the manner of men, they saying those things which were displeasing and provoking to him, and which he could not bear to hear; or otherwise weariness properly cannot be attributed to God:

Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? as if they were clear and innocent; or, as the Targum, "if ye should say"; though they might not express themselves in words in such an impudent manner; yet should they say so in their hearts, or supposing they should utter such words with their lips, out of the abundance of their evil hearts, the answer is ready:

When ye say, Every one that doeth evil [is] good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; which they concluded from the prosperity of the wicked, and the afflictions of the righteous; so murmuring at, and complaining of, the providence of God; he acting as if he delighted in wicked men, and as if they that did evil were the most grateful and acceptable to him:

or, if this was not the case,

Where [is] the God of judgment? why does he not arise and show himself to be a God that judgeth the earth, by taking vengeance on the wicked, and granting prosperity to his people? De Dieu takes these last words to be the words of the prophet, and thinks that או is a particle of exclamation, and should be rendered "O"; and that the prophet expresses his wonder at the patience and longsuffering of God in bearing such impiety and blasphemy as before delivered. The Septuagint and Arabic versions are, "where is the God of righteousness?" either God the Father, who is righteous in all his ways, and faithful in the fulfilment of all his promises; or, Christ the Lord our righteousness, who was to come, and is come into this world for judgment, as well as to bring in an everlasting righteousness. This may be considered as a scoff of wicked men at the long delay of the Messiah's coming, when they expected outward prosperity and happiness; just as the scoffers in the last day will mock at the promise of his second coming, 2 Peter 3:3 and so the words, with which the next chapter begins Malachi 3:1, are an answer to these.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 by the ills of others. Whence also the Lord says in Isaiah Isaiah 1:14, “I am weary to bear them,” and Isaiah 43:24, “thou hast made Me to serve with thy sins; thou hast wearied Me with thine iniquities.” In like way the Apostle says Ephesians 4:30.

With the same contumacy as before, and unconsciousness of sin, they ask, “Wherein?” It is the old temptation at the prosperity of the wicked. “Does God love the wicked? if not, why does He not punish them?” “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.” “The people, when returned from Babylon, seeing all the nations around, and the Babylonians themselves, serving idols but abounding in wealth, strong in body, possessing all which is accounted good in this world, and themselves, who had the knowledge of God, overwhelmed with want, hunger, servitude, is scandalized and says, ‘There is no providence in human things; all things are borne along by blind chance, and not governed by the judgment of God; nay rather, things evil please Him, things good displease Him; or if God does discriminate all things, where is His equitable and just judgment?’ Questions of this sort minds, which believe not in the world to come, daily raise to God, when they see the wicked in power, the saints in low estate; such as Lazarus, whom we read of in the Gospel, who, before the gate of the rich man in his purple, desires to support his hungry soul with the crumbs which are thrown away from the remnants of the table, while the rich man is of such savagery and cruelty, that he had no pity on his fellow-man, to whom the tongues of the dogs showed pity; not understanding the time of judgment, nor that those are the true goods, which are for ever, say, He is pleased with the evil, and, Where is the God of judgment?”

Where is the God of the judgment? - ^o “i. e., of that judgment, the great, most certain, most exact, clearsighted, omniscient, most just, most free, wherein He regards neither powerful nor rich nor gifts, nor anything but justice? For He is the God of the judgment, to whom it belongs by nature to judge all men and things by an exact judgment: for His nature is equity itself, justice itself, providence itself, and that, most just, most wise. To Him it belongs to be the Judge of all, and to exercise strict judgment upon all; and He will exercise it fully on that decisive and last day of the world, which shall be the horizon between this life and the next, parting off time from eternity, heaven from hell, the blessed from the damned forever, through Christ, whom He constituted Judge of all, quick and dead.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Malachi 2:17. Ye have wearied the Lord — He has borne with you so long, and has been provoked so often, that he will bear it no longer. It is not fit that he should.

Every one that doeth evil — Ye say that it is right in the sight of the Lord to put away a wife, because she has no longer found favour in the sight of her husband. And because it has not been signally punished hitherto, ye blaspheme and cry out, "Where is the God of judgment?" Were he such as he is represented, would he not speak out? All these things show that this people were horribly corrupt. The priests were bad; the prophets were bad; the Levites were bad; and no wonder that the people were irreligious, profane, profligate, and cruel.