Malachi 3:14
"Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?"
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- Isaiah 58:3
"Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 73:8
"They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily."
Read in chapter → - Zephaniah 1:12
"And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil."
Read in chapter → - Job 35:3
"For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?"
Read in chapter → - Zechariah 7:3
"And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?"
Read in chapter → - Job 34:9
"For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God."
Read in chapter → - Joel 2:12
"Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:"
Read in chapter → - Job 22:17
"Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?"
Read in chapter → - James 4:9
"Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness."
Read in chapter → - Job 21:14
"Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways."
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