Your words — Your perverse reasoning, and impious quarrellings against God. Is good — This wicked inference they drew, from their prosperity in the world. He delighteth in them — As appears (say these atheists) by his prospering them. Where is the God of judgment — If he is there, judging and governing the world, why does he not punish these men?
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 EVI...
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...
THE REBUKE OF THE SOCIAL CONDITIONS CHAPTER 2:10-17 The priests were corrupt, and with their bad example the people were likewise corrupt. It is the prophet who speaks in verse 10. The One Father was...
THE REBUKE OF THE PRIESTS CHAPTER 1:6-2:9 The priests, the religious leaders of the people, are described first in their evil ways, and rebuked. But the rebuke includes the entire people, for it is t...
MALACHI 2:17 TO MALACHI 3:6. THE COMING OF JUDGMENT. This passage is addressed to those of the prophet's contemporaries who were so perplexed by the state of things around them that they had become sc...
SAY. have said. EVERY ONE, &c. Some codices read "All who do wrong are", &c. EVIL. violence. Hebrew. _ra_. _a._ App-44....
Malachi 2:17 to Malachi 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 worshi...
_WORDS ALONE WEARY THE LORD - MALACHI 2:15-17:_ God required a godly seed. Those who are married must nurture their marriage as a part of their relationship with God. God had all the resources of the...
YE HAVE WEARIED THE LORD, &C.— A new discourse begins here, and these words properly belong to the next chapter, where an answer is given to the objection proposed. See Malachi 3:2; Malachi 3:5; Malac...
CHAPTER XLV THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD THE LORD WILL SEND A MESSENGER TO PREPARE FOR HIS DAY. Malachi 2:17 to Malachi 3:6. RV. Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we we...
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...
2 The Degeneracy of the Priesthood 1. A reminder to the priests that they are to blame for the laxity denounced in Malachi 1:13; Malachi 1:14. They are responsible for the offering of fit victims, w...
MY *MESSENGER MALACHI _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 2 V1 ‘And now, priests, this command is for you. V2 If you do not listen (to me)’ says the *LORD of Everything, ‘then I will send a *curse on you...
REBUKE OF INFIDELITY. THE ADVENT OF THE LORD FORETOLD (MALACHI 2:17 TO MALACHI 3:18). (17) A new section of the prophecy begins with this verse. The prophet now directs his reproofs against the people...
(10-17) The prophet now rebukes the two great sins of the nation at this time: (1) marriage with idolatresses; (2) divorce of the first (Israelitish) wife. He introduces this rebuke by a general state...
הֹוגַעְתֶּ֤ם יְהוָה֙ בְּ דִבְרֵיכֶ֔ם וַ אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם...
Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1; Malachi 4:1 PROPHECY WITHIN THE LAW "MALACHI" 1-4 BENEATH this title we may gather all the eight sections of the Book of "Malachi." They contain many things of perennial i...
4. THE CRUELTY OF DIVORCE Malachi 2:10 In his fourth section, upon his countrymen's frequent divorce of their native wives in order to marry into the influential families of their half-heathen neighb...
5. "WHERE IS THE GOD OF JUDGMENT?" Malachi 2:17; Malachi 3:1 In this section "Malachi" turns from the sinners of his people to those who weary Jehovah with the complaint that sin is successful, or, a...
THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE COVENANT Malachi 2:1-17 As a contrast to the disgraceful attitude which the prophet had described as characteristic of the priesthood, he paints the picture of the noble prie...
In dealing with the priests, he declared their corruption, and indicated the line of their punishment. He charged them with profanity, in that they had despised the name of Jehovah; with sacrilege, in...
Ye have (d) wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied [him]? When ye say, Every one that doeth (e) evil [is] good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, W...
_Judgment. Being scandalized at the prosperity of the wicked, (Haydock) they deny Providence, Psalm lxxii., and Jeremias xii. (Calmet) --- Yet the wicked are left for wise purposes, either for their a...
REFLECTIONS Reader! while we take part in the just reproaches of Israel, in their kingdom of priests, in beholding their transgression, and feeling our own; let us seek relief from the distressing con...
These are all so many striking expostulations to the same amount; showing the people, that both in their conduct towards each other in relative and social duties, as well as in their reverence to the...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The Lord has not been pleased to give us much express information of the prophets in general, with the exception of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel, and in a me...
The Prophet here reproves the Jews who expostulated with God in their adversity, as though he had undeservedly forsaken them, and had not brought them immediate help. Thus are hypocrites wont to do; u...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 4. The prophecy of Malachi deals with the people brought back from the captivity of Babylon, and is most important as shewing the moral condition of...
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...
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...
_Ye have wearied the Lord with your words_ You have tired his patience by your blasphemous speeches, charging his providence with injustice. _Yet ye say_ Ye persist to say; _Wherein have we wearied hi...
Ye have wearied the Lord with your words, with their dissatisfied grumbling over recent events. YET YE SAY, WHEREIN HAVE WE WEARIED HIM? the same disobedient people again standing out in opposition to...
AGAINST DIVORCES AND MARRIAGES WITH HEATHEN WIVES...
10-17 Corrupt practices are the fruit of corrupt principles; and he who is false to his God, will not be true to his fellow mortals. In contempt of the marriage covenant, which God instituted, the Je...
YE; ye priests and people, slight in your religion toward God. Unfaithful in your covenant with your wives. HAVE WEARIED THE LORD (after the manner of man this is spoken of God) with your words; your...
Malachi 2:17 wearied H3021 (H8689) LORD H3068 words H1697 say H559 (H8804) wearied H3021 (H8689) say...
OTHER ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL (MALACHI 2:17). Malachi now briefly add other sins of which they are guilty before God. No doubt in his oral prophesying he considerably expanded on the...
CONTENTS: The message to the priests concerning their sins. The evils among the people. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Malachi. CONCLUSION: Woe to those appointed to be God's mouth to the people, but...
Malachi 2:1. _Oh ye priests if ye will not hear the Lord will send a curse upon you._ Sins in the sanctuary are always put among the most grievous sins. Eli's sons lost the ark, the Hebrew priests fil...
_Where is the God of judgment?_ A STARTLING QUESTION Times of abounding wickedness have been times of unbelief. Evil hinders the manifestation of God in the world. His laws seem to have no executive...
_That My covenant might be with Levi._ THE MINISTER OF DIVINE TRUTH I. As he always should be. 1. A man divinely called. 2. A man of profound reverence. 3. A man of moral truthfulness. 4. A man...
CRITICAL NOTES. Malachi 2:10.] A fresh section, “the condemnation of marriages with heathen women (Malachi 2:10), and of the frivolous dissolution of marriages with Israelitish women, which was the na...
EXPOSITION MALACHI 2:1 _§ 4. For these derelictions of duty the priests are threatened with punishment._ MALACHI 2:1 THIS COMMANDMENT. The threat or announcement is called a commandment, because Go...
Now He addresses Himself to the priests. And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. And if you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD...
1 Samuel 2:3; 2 Peter 3:3; 2 Peter 3:4; Amos 2:13; Deuteronomy 32:4;...
VITAL QUESTIONS Malachi 1:1; Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Malachi presents questions asked by God. In response, instead of a direct answer, the chosen people, Israel, ask...