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Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Malachi 3:14

"Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?"This is the age-old problem of the prosperity of the wicked contrasted with the struggles and tribulations of the righteous. Psalms 73 addresses the same problem. The saints of all ages have confronted it and have been perplexed by it. There is only one answer; and it is the same in the Psalm, or in Malachi, or always."It was too painful for... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:13

13-18. He notices the complaint of the Jews that it is of no profit to serve Jehovah, for that the ungodly proud are happy; and declares He will soon bring the day when it shall be known that He puts an everlasting distinction between the godly and the ungodly. words . . . stout—Hebrew, "hard"; so "the hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him" ( :-) [HENDERSON]. have we spoken—The Hebrew expresses at once their assiduity and habit of speaking against God [VATABLUS]. The... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:14

14. what profit . . . that we . . . kept, c.—(See on Malachi 2:17). They here resume the same murmur against God. Job 21:14 Job 21:15; Job 22:17 describe a further stage of the same skeptical spirit, when the skeptic has actually ceased to keep God's service. Job 22:17- : describes the temptation to a like feeling in the saint when seeing the really godly suffer and the ungodly prosper in worldly goods now. The Jews here mistake utterly the nature of God's service, converting it into a... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 3:13

The people had spoken arrogantly against the Lord, yet when faced with their disrespect they asked for proof. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 3:13-15

C. Situation: complacency toward serving the Lord 3:13-15Now the Lord identified the sinful attitude that lay behind the peoples’ failure to tithe. This is the longest speech of the Judahites in the book, and it shows the hardness of the peoples’ hearts. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 3:14

The Lord obliged them. They had said that serving the Lord and obeying Him did not benefit them, that it did not pay to serve Yahweh. When they mourned over their sins, their physical conditions did not improve."Some of the people who made the complaint (Malachi 3:14) were guilty of the myopic legalism that eventually led to Jewish pharisaism in the first century A.D. This legalism concentrated on performing certain rigorous activities and not doing other things as the means of vindicating... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:1-18

3The Speedy Judgment1. This v. is closely connected with the preceding. It is the answer to the question, ’Where is the God of judgment?’ The messenger is evidently a prophet or a succession of prophets: cp. Deuteronomy 18:9-22. The phrase he shall prepare the way before me is probably borrowed from Isaiah 40:3-5, where the thought is that a highway must be prepared on which ’the Glory of the Lord’ may lead Israel to the land of Canaan. Zechariah (Zechariah 8:8) had promised that Jehovah would... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Malachi 3:1-18

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 for their discontent and their want of faith in the promises of God, because the expected manifestation of God’s glory did not take place immediately. Because the doers of evil seem to flourish, the people say that God takes delight in them, “or” i.e., if this be not the case, “Where is the God of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Malachi 3:13

(13) Your words . . . against me.—Better, your words put a constraint on me: viz., to prove myself to you to be “the God of judgment.”Spoken.—Or rather, conversed together. (Comp. Malachi 3:16.) They seem to have been in the habit of conversing together, and comparing the promises of God towards them with the then state of affairs. God had promised that they should be a proverb among the nations for blessedness; but, say they, seeing that things are as they are, “we [feel more inclined to] call... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Malachi 3:14

(14) Mournfully—i.e., with all outward signs of fasting. (Comp. Matthew 6:16.) The fasting referred to is not that of the Day of Atonement, but of voluntary fasts. We see here, in already a somewhat developed form, that disposition to attribute merit to observances of outward forms of religion for their own sake, without regard to the secret attitude of the heart, which reached such a pitch among the majority of the Jews in the time of our Lord, and especially among the Pharisees. read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Malachi 3:14

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:13

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:14

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 3:13

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 3:13-15

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 3:14

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 3:1-18

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Malachi 3:1-18

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Malachi 3:13

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Malachi 3:14

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