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You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies?

Malachi 3:14 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીમાલાખી ૩:૧૪
તમે કહ્યું છે કે, ‘ઈશ્વરની સેવા કરવી વ્યર્થ છે. અમે તેમના વિધિઓ પાળ્યા તથા સૈન્યોના યહોવાહની આગળ શોકપૂર્વક ચાલ્યા તેથી અમને શો લાભ થયો?
हिन्दीमलाकी ३:१४
तुम ने कहा है ‘परमेश्वर की सेवा करना व्यर्थ है। हमने जो उसके बताए हुए कामों को पूरा किया और सेनाओं के यहोवा के डर के मारे शोक का पहरावा पहने हुए चले हैं, इससे क्या लाभ हुआ?

In context

12“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says the LORD of Armies.

13“Your words have been harsh against me,” says the LORD. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

14You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies?

15Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

16Then those who feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared the LORD and who honored his name.

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