Bible Cross References
Why
Jeremiah 15:18
Why has my pain been continual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You surely are to me like deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.
Joshua 9:10
and all that He has done to the two kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan; to Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
Joshua 9:11
Therefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our land spoke to us, saying, Take provisions with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, We are your servants; now therefore, make a treaty with us.
Lamentations 3:39
Why does a living man complain at the punishment for his sins?
Micah 7:9
I will bear the indignation of Jehovah because I have sinned against Him, until He pleads my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me forth to the light; I shall see His righteousness.
thy sorrows
Jeremiah 30:12
For thus says Jehovah, Your break is incurable, and your wound is making you sick.
Jeremiah 30:17
For I will stir up health to you, and will heal you of your wounds, says Jehovah; because they called you an outcast, saying, This is Zion; no one seeks after her.
Jeremiah 46:11
Go up into Gilead and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt. In vain shall you use many medicines; you shall not be cured.
Job 34:6
should I lie concerning my right? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.
Job 34:29
When He gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when He hides His face, who then can see Him? It might be against a nation or mankind altogether,
Isaiah 30:13
therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a high wall, whose crashing comes suddenly in an instant.
Isaiah 30:14
And He shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces. He shall not spare, so that there shall not be found in the fragments of it a shard with which to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the cistern.
Hosea 5:12
Therefore, I will be to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Hosea 5:13
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to King Jareb. Yet he could not heal you, nor did he cure you of your wound.
Micah 1:9
For her wounds are incurable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.
Malachi 4:1
For, behold, the day is coming, burning like a fire pot; and all the proud and everyone that does wickedness shall be chaff. And the coming day will set them ablaze, says Jehovah of Hosts, which will not leave to them root or branch.
Malachi 4:2
But to you who fear My name, the Sun of Righteousness shall rise up, with healing on His wings. And you shall go out and frisk like calves of the stall.
for the
Jeremiah 30:14
All your lovers have forgotten you; they do not seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the abundance of your iniquity, because your sins are many.
Jeremiah 2:19
Your own evil shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you. Therefore know and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, and that My fear is not in you, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.
Jeremiah 2:28-30
28
But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your distress; for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.
29
Why will you plead with Me? You all have rebelled against Me, says Jehovah.
30
In vain I have chastened your children; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 5:6-9
6
Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, and a wolf of the deserts shall destroy them; a leopard shall watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backslidings are increased.
7
How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me, and have sworn by those that are not gods. When I adjured them, then they committed adultery, and gathered themselves by troops in a harlot's house.
8
They were like lusty, well-fed stallions in the morning; every one neighing after his neighbor's wife.
9
Shall I not punish for these things? says Jehovah. And shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 5:25-31
25
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
26
For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27
Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.
28
They have grown fat, they gleam. Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; they do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.
29
Shall I not punish for these things? says Jehovah. Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30
An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land.
31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their own power; and my people love to have it so, and what will you do in the end?
Jeremiah 6:6
For thus has Jehovah of Hosts said, Cut down trees and cast a mound against Jerusalem! This is the city to be punished; she is full of oppression in her midst.
Jeremiah 6:7
As a fountain keeps fresh its waters, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and devastation is heard in her; before Me continually are sickness and wounds.
Jeremiah 6:13
For everyone from the least of them even to the greatest of them profits from unjust gain; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
Jeremiah 7:8-11
8
Behold, you trust in lying words that are of no benefit.
9
Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know;
10
and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, We are delivered to do all those abominations?
11
Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 9:1-9
1
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for travelers, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.
4
Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant and assail his neighbor, and will walk with slanderers.
5
And everyone will deceive his neighbor and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6
Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says Jehovah.
7
Therefore thus says Jehovah of Hosts, Behold, I will refine them and try them; for how else shall I deal with the daughter of My people?
8
Their tongue is a slaughtering arrow; it speaks deceit; one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.
9
Shall I not punish them for these things? says Jehovah; shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 11:13
For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah. And according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to that shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.
Jeremiah 32:30-35
30
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only evil before Me from their youth. For the children of Israel have only provoked Me to anger with the work of their hands, says Jehovah.
31
For this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and of My fury from the day that they built it, even to this day; that I should remove it from before My face,
32
because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger; they, their kings, their rulers, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
33
And they have turned the back to Me, and not the face; though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.
34
But they set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.
35
And they built the high places of Baal, in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech; which I did not command them, nor did it even enter My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
2 Chronicles 36:14-17
14
Moreover all the rulers of the priests and the people trespassed with great unfaithfulness, according to all the abominations of the nations, and defiled the house of Jehovah which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
15
And Jehovah the God of their fathers sent to them by the hand of His messengers, rising early to send them, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.
16
But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, to make the wrath of Jehovah swell up against His people, till there was no healing.
17
Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand.
Ezra 9:6
And I said: O my God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the Heavens.
Ezra 9:7
Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt, and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to shame of faces, to this day.
Ezra 9:13
And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since You our God have held back from the bending down in punishment of our iniquities, and have given us such deliverance as this,
Nehemiah 9:26-36
26
Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against You, cast Your Law behind their backs and killed Your prophets, who testified against them to turn them to Yourself; and they worked great blasphemies.
27
Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who distressed them; and in the time of their trouble, when they cried out to You, You heard from Heaven; and according to Your abundant mercies You gave them deliverers who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
28
But after they had rest, they returned to doing evil before You. Therefore You left them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them; yet when they returned and cried out to You, You heard from Heaven; and many times You delivered them according to Your mercies,
29
and testified against them, that You might bring them back to Your Law. Yet they acted presumptuously, and did not heed Your commandments, but sinned against Your judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them. And they shrugged their shoulders, stiffened their necks, and would not obey.
30
Yet for many years You had patience with them, and testified against them by Your Spirit by the hand of Your prophets. Yet they would not listen; therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
31
Nevertheless in Your great mercy You did not annihilate them nor forsake them; for You are the Mighty God, gracious and merciful.
32
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and awesome Mighty God, who keeps covenant and mercy: Do not let all the trouble seem small before You that has found us, our kings and our rulers, our priests and our prophets, our fathers and all Your people, since the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.
33
However You are just in all that has come upon us; for You have dealt faithfully, but we have done wickedly.
34
Neither our kings nor our princes, our priests nor our fathers, have kept Your Law, nor paid attention to Your commandments and Your testimonies, with which You testified against them.
35
For they have not served You in their kingdom, nor in the great goodness that You gave them, nor in the large and rich land which You set before them; nor did they turn from their evil works.
36
Here we are, servants this day! And the land that You gave to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its bounty; behold, we are servants in it.
Isaiah 1:4
Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have scorned the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged backward.
Isaiah 1:5
Why will you be stricken any more? Will you rebel more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint.
Isaiah 1:21-24
21
Oh how the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it; but now, murderers!
22
Your silver has become dross; your wine is diluted with water.
23
Your rulers are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe, and pursues rewards. They do not judge for the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.
24
Therefore says the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah! I will be eased of My adversaries, and avenge Myself of My enemies.
Isaiah 5:2
And He fenced it, and cleared out its stones, and planted it with choice vines, and built a tower in its midst, and hewed out a winepress in it; and He looked for it to produce grapes, but it produced rotten grapes.
Isaiah 59:1-4
1
Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor is His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
2
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, that He will not hear.
3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has uttered perverseness.
4
No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth; they trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
Isaiah 59:12-15
12
For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
13
in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and backsliding from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14
And justice is driven back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
15
Yea, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice.
Lamentations 1:5
Her oppressors have become the chief; her enemies are at ease; for Jehovah has afflicted her for the multitude of her sins. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.
Lamentations 4:13
For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the just in her midst,
Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe unto us, for we have sinned.
Lamentations 5:17
Our heart is faint because of this; our eyes are dim because of these things.
Ezekiel 16:1-63
1
Again the Word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
3
and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
4
As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.
5
No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, for you yourself were loathed on the day you were born.
6
And when I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you in your blood, Live! Yes, I said to you in your blood, Live!
7
I have made you a multitude, like a plant in the field; and you grew, became great, bedecked with ornaments. Your breasts were formed, your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.
8
When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread the edge of My garment over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord Jehovah.
9
Then I washed you in water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood, and I anointed you with oil.
10
I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin; I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
11
I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your wrists, and a chain on your neck.
12
And I put a ring in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.
13
Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate of fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and succeeded to royalty.
14
Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed upon you, declares the Lord Jehovah.
15
But you trusted in your own beauty, committed adultery because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it.
16
You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored high places for yourself, and committed adultery on them. Such things should not happen, nor be.
17
You have also taken your beautiful jewelry from My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images and committed adultery with them.
18
And you took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them.
19
Also My food which I gave you; the fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you; you set it before them as a soothing aroma; and so it was, says the Lord Jehovah.
20
Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter,
21
that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the fire?
22
And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, squirming in your blood.
23
And so it was, after all your wickedness (Woe, woe unto you! declares the Lord Jehovah);
24
that you also built for yourself a mound, and made a high place for yourself in every open place.
25
You built your high places at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry.
26
You also committed adultery with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to anger.
27
Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your licentious ways.
28
You also committed adultery with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you committed adultery with them and still were not satisfied.
29
Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry in the land of Canaan, as far as Chaldea; and even then you were not satisfied.
30
How weak is your heart! declares the Lord Jehovah, seeing you do all these things; the deeds of a domineering woman of prostitution.
31
You build your mound at the head of every road, and built your high place in every open place. Yet you were not like a prostitute, in that you scorned payment.
32
You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband.
33
Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them to come to you from all around for your harlotry.
34
You are the opposite of other women in your harlotry, because no one solicited you to be a prostitute. In that you gave payment but no payment was given you, therefore you are the opposite.
35
Now then, O prostitute! Hear the Word of Jehovah!
36
Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,
37
surely, therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
38
And I will judge you as women who commit adultery or who shed blood are judged; I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy.
39
I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your mounds and break down your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
40
They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones and cut you with their swords.
41
And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will put an end to your harlotry, and you shall no longer hire lovers.
42
So I will lay to rest My fury toward you, and My jealousy shall depart from you. I will be quiet, and be angry no more.
43
Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but agitated Me with all these things, surely I will also recompense your deeds upon your own head, says the Lord Jehovah. And you shall not commit licentiousness in addition to all your abominations.
44
Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you: Like mother, like daughter!
45
You are your mother's daughter, loathing her husband and children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
46
And your older sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her daughters.
47
Yet you did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.
48
As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.
49
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
50
And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.
51
Samaria did not commit half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all the abominations which you have done.
52
You who judged your sisters, bear your own shame also, because your sins were more abominable than theirs; they are more righteous than you. Yes, be disgraced also, and bear your own shame, because you justified your sisters.
53
When I bring back their captives, the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and the captives of Samaria and her daughters, then I will also bring back the captives of your captivity among them,
54
so that you may bear your own shame and be disgraced by all that you did, since you comforted them.
55
When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters return to their former state, then you and your daughters will return to your former state.
56
For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,
57
before your wickedness was uncovered. It was like the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and of the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you from all around.
58
You have paid for your licentiousness and your abominations, declares Jehovah.
59
For thus says the Lord Jehovah: I will deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
60
Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
61
Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and your younger sisters; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
62
And I will establish My covenant with you. And you shall know that I am Jehovah,
63
so that you may remember and be ashamed. And you will never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide atonement for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 20:1-49
1
It came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain men of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Jehovah, and sat before me.
2
Then the Word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
3
Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you.
4
Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Then cause them to know the abominations of their fathers.
5
And say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: On the day when I chose Israel and raised My hand and swore to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, I raised My hand and swore to them, saying, I am Jehovah your God.
6
On that day I raised My hand and swore to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all the earth.
7
Then I said to them, Each of you, throw away the abominations which are before his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Jehovah your God.
8
But they rebelled against Me and would not obey Me. They did not, each man, cast away the abominations which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said, I will pour out My fury upon them and fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
9
But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were, in whose sight I had made Myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
10
Therefore I made them go out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.
11
And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, which, if a man does, he shall even live by them.
12
Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah who sets them apart.
13
But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, which, if a man does, he shall even live by them; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said, I will pour out My fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
14
But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
15
So I also raised My hand and swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all the earth,
16
because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
17
Nevertheless My eye spared them from destruction. I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.
18
But I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
19
I am Jehovah your God. Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them;
20
set apart My Sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am Jehovah your God.
21
Nevertheless, the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, and did not keep My judgments, which, if a man does, he shall even live by them; but they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the wilderness.
22
Nevertheless I withdrew My hand and acted for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
23
And I raised My hand and swore to those in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the earth,
24
because they had not executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes, profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes followed after their fathers' idols.
25
Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live;
26
and I defiled them by their gifts, in that they caused all that open the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.
27
Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed Me, by being treacherously unfaithful to Me.
28
For when I brought them into the land concerning which I had raised My hand and sworn to give it to them, and they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, there they offered their sacrifices and provoked Me with their offerings. There they also sent up their soothing aroma and poured out their drink offerings.
29
Then I said to them, What is this high place to which you go? And its name is called Bamah to this day.
30
Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Are you defiling yourselves in the manner of your fathers, and committing adultery with their abominations?
31
For when you offer your gifts and make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. So shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you.
32
What you have in your mind shall never be, when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families in other lands, serving wood and stone.
33
As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule over you.
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And I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out.
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And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will plead with you face to face.
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Just as I judged your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, declares the Lord Jehovah.
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I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;
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I will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me. I will bring them out of the land where they dwell, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. And you will know that I am Jehovah.
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As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord Jehovah: Go, serve every one of you his idols, even hereafter, if you will not obey me. But profane My holy name no more with your gifts and your idols.
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For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah, there all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the firstfruits of your sacrifices, together with all your holy things.
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I will accept you as a soothing aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the lands where you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the nations.
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And you shall know that I am Jehovah, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the land for which I raised My hand and swore to give it to your fathers.
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And there you shall remember your ways and all your evil deeds with which you were defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the evils that you have done.
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And you shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have dealt with you for My name's sake, not according to your wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah.
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Furthermore the Word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, set your face toward the south; drop a word toward the south and prophesy against the forest land, the South,
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and say to the forest of the South, Hear the Word of Jehovah! Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree and every dry tree in you; the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be scorched by it.
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All flesh shall see that I, Jehovah, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.
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Then I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! They say of me, Does he not speak parables?
Ezekiel 22:1-23
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Moreover the Word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
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And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, show her all her abominations!
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Then say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: The city sheds blood in her midst, that her time may come. And she makes idols within herself to defile herself.
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You are guilty by the blood which you have shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all lands.
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Those who are near and those far from you will mock you as defiled of name and full of confusion.
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Behold, the rulers of Israel: each one was in you by his power to shed blood in you.
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In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the sojourner; in you they have mistreated the orphan and the widow.
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You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
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In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed; in you they eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness.
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In you men uncover the nakedness of their fathers; in you they humble women during their menstrual impurity.
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One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; and another in you humbles his sister, his father's daughter.
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In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.
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Behold, therefore, I have clapped My hands at the unjust gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.
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Can your heart endure, or can your hands remain strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I, Jehovah, have spoken, and will do it.
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I will scatter you among the nations, disperse you throughout the earth, and destroy your filthiness out of you.
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You shall defile yourself in the eyes of the nations; and you shall know that I am Jehovah.
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The Word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; they are all bronze, tin, iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
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As men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire on it to melt it; so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you.
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Yes, I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst.
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As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in its midst. And you shall know that I, Jehovah, have poured out My fury upon you.
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And the Word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Zephaniah 3:1-5
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Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
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She did not give heed to the voice; she did not receive correction; she did not trust in Jehovah; she did not draw near to her God.
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Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, that do not leave the bones till the morning.
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Her prophets are wanton, treacherous people; her priests have profaned the sanctuary; they have done violence to the Law.
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The righteous Jehovah is in her midst; He will do no wrong. Every morning He gives His justice to the light; He does not fail, but the unjust knows no shame.