1. Sins in the home have consequences in the church. Weeping of heart-broken wives reached the altar of God, verse 13. Remember sad Hannah, 1 Sam 1:6-8. 2. Such domestic divisions have their spiritual dimensions. " . . . he regardeth not the offering any more," verse 13. See also 1 Peter 3:7. 3. God is a witness to all this. "Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth." 4. Marriage is a solemn undertaking and must be preserved. A Man and his wife should continue together, to the end of their lives. [1.] Because God has joined them together. "Did not he make one?" verse 15. "It was that he might seek a godly seed." A seed that should bear the image of God and be devoted to His glory and honour. The raising up of a godly seed is one great end of the institution of marriage. [2.] Because God is much displeased with those who seek to put asunder what he has joined together. "The God of Israel saith that he hateth putting away," verse 16. He permitted it to the Jews, for the hardness of their hearts but he hated it. THE WEARISOMENESS TO GOD OF SUCH BEHAVIOR. "Ye have wearied the LORD with your words," verse 17. 1. His Law is made to be as a burdensome thing. It is not, Matthew 11:29-30. 2. It is a wearisome thing to watch the efforts made to hide sin. As if God cannot see through their concealments. 3. It is wearisome thing for God to put up with their sins. "Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities," Isaiah 43:24. Does our worship appear as a jail sentence to God?