Malachi 3:13-15 ------- The wicked are lifted up... (Part 1 of 2)

Malachi 3:13-15
13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
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?
15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up;
yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.