Ezekiel 33:29
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29 (A)Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed.
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Ezekiel 6:7
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7 And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
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Zephaniah 3:1-4
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Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations
3 Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,
(A)the oppressing city!
2 She listens to no voice;
(B)she accepts no correction.
(C)She does not trust in the Lord;
she does not draw near to her God.
3 (D)Her officials within her
are roaring lions;
her judges are (E)evening wolves
that leave nothing till the morning.
4 (F)Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men;
(G)her priests (H)profane what is holy;
they do violence to the law.
Micah 6:9-12
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Destruction of the Wicked
9 The voice of the Lord cries to the city—
and it is sound wisdom to fear (A)your name:
“Hear of (B)the rod and of him who appointed it![a]
10 Can I forget any longer the treasures[b] of wickedness in the house of the wicked,
and the scant measure that is accursed?
11 Shall I acquit the man (C)with wicked scales
and with a bag of deceitful weights?
12 Your[c] rich men are (D)full of violence;
your inhabitants (E)speak lies,
and (F)their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Footnotes
- Micah 6:9 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
- Micah 6:10 Or Are there still treasures
- Micah 6:12 Hebrew whose
Ezekiel 36:17-18
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17 (A)“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, (B)they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were (C)like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity. 18 So (D)I poured out my wrath upon them (E)for the blood that they had shed in the land, for the idols (F)with which they had defiled it.
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Ezekiel 25:11
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11 (A)and I will execute judgments upon Moab. (B)Then they will know that I am the Lord.
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Ezekiel 23:49
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49 And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and (A)you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and (B)you shall know that I am the Lord God.”
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Ezekiel 22:25-31
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25 (A)The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is (B)like a roaring lion (C)tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 (D)Her priests (E)have done violence to my law and (F)have profaned my holy things. (G)They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and (H)they have disregarded my Sabbaths, (I)so that I am profaned among them. 27 (J)Her princes in her midst are like wolves (K)tearing the prey, (L)shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. 28 And (M)her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, (N)seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken. 29 The people of the land (O)have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and (P)have extorted from the sojourner without justice. 30 (Q)And I sought for a man among them (R)who should build up the wall (S)and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. 31 Therefore (T)I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned (U)their way upon their heads, declares the Lord God.”
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Ezekiel 22:2-15
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2 “And you, (A)son of man, (B)will you judge, will you judge (C)the bloody city? (D)Then declare to her all her abominations. 3 You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that (E)her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! 4 You have become guilty (F)by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought (G)your days near, the appointed time of[a] your years has come. (H)Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. 5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; (I)your name is defiled; (J)you are full of tumult.
6 “Behold, (K)the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 7 Father and mother (L)are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner (M)suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow (N)are wronged in you. 8 (O)You have despised my holy things and (P)profaned my Sabbaths. 9 (Q)There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you (R)who eat on the mountains; (S)they commit lewdness in your midst. 10 In you (T)men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. 11 (U)One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; (V)another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; (W)another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter. 12 In you (X)they take bribes to shed blood; (Y)you take interest and profit[b] and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but (Z)me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.
13 “Behold, (AA)I strike my hand at (AB)the dishonest gain that you have made, and at (AC)the blood that has been in your midst. 14 (AD)Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? (AE)I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it. 15 (AF)I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and (AG)I will consume your uncleanness out of you.
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- Ezekiel 22:4 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; most Hebrew manuscripts until
- Ezekiel 22:12 That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor (compare Leviticus 25:36)
Ezekiel 8:6-15
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6 And he said to me, “Son of man, (A)do you see what they are doing, (B)the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, (C)to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”
7 And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall. 8 Then he said to me, “Son of man, (D)dig in the wall.” So I dug in the wall, and behold, there was an entrance. 9 And he said to me, “Go in, and see (E)the vile abominations that they are committing here.” 10 So I went in and saw. And there, (F)engraved on the wall all around, was (G)every form of (H)creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel. 11 And before them stood (I)seventy men of (J)the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of (K)Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and (L)the smoke of the cloud of incense went up. 12 Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing (M)in the dark, each (N)in his room of pictures? For they say, (O)‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’” 13 He said also to me, (P)“You will see still greater abominations that they commit.”
14 Then he brought me to (Q)the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 15 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O (R)son of man? (S)You will see still greater abominations than these.”
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Ezekiel 7:27
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27 The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way (A)I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, (B)and they shall know that I am the Lord.”
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Ezekiel 6:11
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11 Thus says the Lord God: (A)“Clap your hands (B)and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, (C)for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
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Jeremiah 5:25-31
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25 (A)Your iniquities have turned these away,
and your sins have kept good from you.
26 For wicked men are found among my people;
(B)they lurk like fowlers lying in wait.[a]
(C)They set a trap;
they catch men.
27 Like a cage full of birds,
their houses are full of deceit;
therefore they have become great and rich;
28 (D)they have grown fat and sleek.
They know no bounds in deeds of evil;
(E)they judge not with justice
the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
29 (F)Shall I not punish them for these things?
declares the Lord,
and shall I not avenge myself
on a nation such as this?”
30 An appalling and (G)horrible thing
has happened in the land:
31 (H)the prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests rule at their direction;
(I)my people love to have it so,
but what will you do when the end comes?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 5:26 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Jeremiah 5:1-9
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Jerusalem Refused to Repent
5 (A)Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,
look and take note!
Search her squares to see
(B)if you can find a man,
one who does justice
and seeks truth,
(C)that I may pardon her.
2 (D)Though they say, “As the Lord lives,”
(E)yet they swear falsely.
3 O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
(F)You have struck them down,
but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
but they refused to take correction.
(G)They have made their faces harder than rock;
they have refused to repent.
4 Then I said, “These are only the poor;
they have no sense;
(H)for they do not know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.
5 I will go to the great
and will speak to them,
for they know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.”
(I)But they all alike had broken the yoke;
they had burst the bonds.
6 Therefore (J)a lion from the forest shall strike them down;
a (K)wolf from the desert shall devastate them.
(L)A leopard is watching their cities;
everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
their (M)apostasies are great.
7 (N)“How can I pardon you?
Your children have forsaken me
(O)and have sworn by those who are no gods.
(P)When I fed them to the full,
(Q)they committed adultery
(R)and trooped to the houses of whores.
8 They were well-fed, lusty stallions,
(S)each neighing (T)for his neighbor's wife.
9 (U)Shall I not punish them for these things?
declares the Lord;
and shall I not avenge myself
on a nation such as this?
Psalm 83:17-18
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17 Let them be (A)put to shame and dismayed forever;
let them perish in disgrace,
18 that they may (B)know that you alone,
(C)whose name is the Lord,
are (D)the Most High over all the earth.
Psalm 9:16
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16 The Lord has made himself (A)known; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion.[a] Selah
Footnotes
- Psalm 9:16 Probably a musical or liturgical term
2 Chronicles 36:14-17
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14 All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the Lord that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
15 The Lord, the God of their fathers, (A)sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 (B)But they kept mocking the messengers of God, (C)despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, (D)until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.
Jerusalem Captured and Burned
17 (E)Therefore he brought up 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, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.
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2 Kings 17:9-18
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9 And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, (A)from watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves (B)pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger, 12 and they served idols, (C)of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13 Yet the Lord (D)warned Israel and Judah (E)by every prophet (F)and every seer, saying, (G)“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
14 But they would not listen, (H)but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They despised his statutes (I)and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after (J)false idols (K)and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the (L)Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of (M)two calves; and they (N)made an Asherah and (O)worshiped all the host of heaven and served (P)Baal. 17 (Q)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings[a] and used (R)divination and (S)omens and (T)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but (U)the tribe of Judah only.
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- 2 Kings 17:17 Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire
Exodus 14:18
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18 And the Egyptians (A)shall know that I am the Lord, (B)when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
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