Isaiah 59:12 Cross References - NSB

¹² You are aware of our many rebellious acts. Our sins testify against us. Our rebellious acts are with us. We know our iniquities.

⁶ I said, »O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face (praying) to you (being in your presence), my God: for our sins have increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

¹³ »After all this and because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment that you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

³³ »You have been in the right in everything that happened to us. You have been true to us, but we have done evil!

⁹ The expression on their faces will be held against them. They boast about their sins! They are like those of the people of Sodom. They do not even bother to hide them. How horrible it will be for these people. They have brought disaster on themselves.

⁴ Woe to the sinful nation, people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who are corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah! They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have turned away from him.

² »Lift up your eyes to the bare hills and see. You have had sex with men in every place. You sat by the roadside waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled (corrupted) (profaned) the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

³ Jehovah looks for faithfulness. He struck you, but you paid no attention. He crushed you, but you refused to learn. You were stubborn and would not turn from your sins. ⁴ I thought: »These are only the poor and ignorant. They are foolish. They do not know what their God requires, what Jehovah wants them to do. ⁵ »I will go to the great men (leaders) and talk with them. Surely they know what their God requires, what Jehovah wants them to do. But all of them have rejected Jehovah’s authority and refuse to obey him.« ⁶ That is why lions from the forest will kill them. Wolves from the desert will tear them to pieces, and leopards will prowl through their towns. If those people go out, they will be torn apart because their sins are numerous and time after time they have turned from God. ⁷ Jehovah asked: Why should I forgive the sins of my people? They have abandoned me and have worshiped gods that are not real. I fed my people until they were full, but they committed adultery and spent their time with prostitutes. ⁸ They were like well-fed stallions wild with desire, each lusting for his neighbor's wife. ⁹ »Why should I not punish the people of Judah?« Says Jehovah, »Should I take retribution (vengeance)?«

²⁵ »Your wickedness has turned these things away. Your sins have kept good things away from you. ²⁶ »Wicked men are found among my people. They lie in ambush like bird catchers. They set traps and catch men. ²⁷ »Like cages filled with birds, their houses are filled with deceit. That is why they become powerful and rich. ²⁸ »They grow big and fat. Their evil deeds have no limits. They have no respect for the rights of others. They have no respect for the rights of orphans. But they still prosper. They do not defend the rights of the poor. ²⁹ »I will punish them for these things,« declares Jehovah. »I will punish these people!

⁸ »You are trusting in deceptive words that are of no value to you. ⁹ »Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known? ¹⁰ »Then come and stand before me in this house. It is called by my name. You say, ‘We are safe to do all these abominations.’

⁷ Do something, Jehovah, for the sake of your name, even though our iniquities testify against us. We have been unfaithful (like apostates) and have sinned against you.

⁶ »She has rebelled against my ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against my statutes more than the lands that surround her. My people have rejected my ordinances and have not walked in my statutes.

²³ ‘»Prepare chains for the land is full of bloodshed and the city full of violence.

⁸ He said to me: »Son of man, dig through the wall. So I dug through the wall, and I saw a door.« ⁹ He said: »Go in and see the wicked abominations (abhorrences) that they are committing here.« ¹⁰ So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of creeping things and beasts and detestable things. There were all the idols of the house of Israel. They were carved on the wall all around. ¹¹ Standing in front of them were seventy elders of the house of Israel. Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood among them. Each man had his censer in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense was rising. ¹² Then he said: »Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say: ‘Jehovah does not see us! Jehovah has forsaken the land!’« ¹³ He said: »Yet you will see still greater abominations that they are committing.« ¹⁴ Then he brought me to the entrance of the gate of Jehovah’s house toward the north; and I saw women sitting there weeping for Tammuz (the god). ¹⁵ He said to me: »Do you see this, son of man? Yet you will see still greater abominations than these.« ¹⁶ So he took me to the inner courtyard of the Temple. There near the entrance of the sanctuary, between the altar and the porch, were about twenty-five men. They turned their backs to the sanctuary and were bowing low toward the east, worshiping the rising sun.

⁵¹ ‘»Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have done many more disgusting things than they ever did. Because of all the disgusting things that you have done, you make your sisters look innocent. ⁵² ‘»You will have to suffer disgrace because you accused your sisters. Yet, your sins are more disgusting than theirs. They look like they are innocent compared to you. Be ashamed of yourself and suffer disgrace, because you have made your sisters look like they are innocent.’

² Son of man will you judge? Will you judge the city of murderers (the bloodguilty)? Then tell it about all the disgusting things that it has done. ³ »Tell it: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »Jerusalem, you are the city that murders people who live in you. Your time has come. You dishonor yourself with disgusting idols. ⁴ »‘»You are guilty because of the blood you have shed (people you have killed). You are unclean (dishonored) because of the disgusting idols you have made. You have brought an end to your days, and you have come to the end of your years. That is why I will make you a disgrace to the nations and a joke in every land. ⁵ »‘»Those near and those far away will mock you. Your name will be dishonored, and you will be filled with confusion. ⁶ »‘»See how all the princes of Israel who live in you have used their power to shed blood (murder people). ⁷ »‘»People in you hate their fathers and mothers. They oppress foreigners in you. They oppress orphans and widows in you.«’« ⁸ »You have despised my holy things and dishonored (profaned the Sabbath) the day to worship me. ⁹ »Your people tell lies about others in order to have them put to death. They eat sacrifices offered to idols. They always satisfy their lusts. ¹⁰ »Some of them sleep with their father's wife. Some force women to have intercourse with them during their period. ¹¹ »Some commit adultery, and others seduce their daughters-in-law or their half sisters. ¹² »Some of your people murder for pay. Some charge interest on the loans they make to other Israelites and get rich by taking advantage of them. They have forgotten me. The Lord Jehovah has spoken.

²⁴ »Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation (outrage) (revulsion). ²⁵ ‘»There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured lives. They have taken treasure and precious things. They have made many widows in the midst of her. ²⁶ ‘»Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the profane. They have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean. They hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. ²⁷ ‘»Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to get dishonest gain. ²⁸ ‘»Her prophets have smeared whitewash for them. They see false visions and divine lies for them. They say: »This is what the Lord Jehovah says, when Jehovah has not spoken.« ²⁹ ‘»The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice.’ ³⁰ ‘»I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

² »Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother. ³ »They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. There their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled. ⁴ »Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah. ⁵ »Oholah played the prostitute while she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors. ⁶ »The Assyrians were clothed in purple, governors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. ⁷ »She gave her acts of fornication to them, all of whom were the choicest men of Assyria; and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols she defiled herself. ⁸ »She did not forsake her acts of fornication from the time in Egypt. In her youth men had lain with her. They handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her. ⁹ »Therefore, I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. ¹⁰ »They uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters, but they killed her with the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgments on her. ¹¹ »Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she. Her prostitution was more than the fornication of her sister. ¹² »She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. ¹³ »I saw that she had defiled herself and that they both went the same way. ¹⁴ »So she increased her acts of fornication. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion (reddish-orange color), ¹⁵ girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. ¹⁶ »When she saw them she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. ¹⁷ »The Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and defiled her with their acts of prostitution. When they had defiled her, she became disgusted with them. ¹⁸ »She uncovered her acts if prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. I became disgusted with her, as I had become disgusted with her sister. ¹⁹ »Yet she multiplied her acts of prostitution. She remembered the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt. ²⁰ »She lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose genital organ is like the genital organ of horses. ²¹ »Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth. ²² »Therefore, O Oholibah, the Lord Jehovah says: ‘Behold I will arouse your lovers against you, from whom you were alienated. I will bring them against you from every side: ²³ the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and officials all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. ²⁴ ‘»They will come against you with weapons, chariots and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their customs. ²⁵ ‘»I will set my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears. Your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters. The fire will consume your survivors. ²⁶ ‘»They will also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels. ²⁷ ‘»I will make your lewdness and your fornication brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’ ²⁸ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Behold, I will give you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom you were alienated. ²⁹ »They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your fornications will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your acts of prostitution. ³⁰ »These things will be done to you because you have played the prostitute with the nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols. ³¹ »You have walked in the way of your sister. Therefore I will give her cup into your hand. ³² »The Lord Jehovah says this: ‘You will drink your sister's cup, which is deep and wide. You will be laughed at and held in derision; it contains much. ³³ ‘»You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria. ³⁴ ‘»You will drink it and drain it. Then you will gnaw its fragments and tear your breasts. »I have spoken,« declares the Lord Jehovah.’ ³⁵ »Therefore, the Lord Jehovah says: ‘Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, bear now the punishment of your lewdness and your acts of prostitution.’« ³⁶ Jehovah said to me: »Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations. ³⁷ »For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them as food. ³⁸ »Again, they have done this to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and have profaned my Sabbaths. ³⁹ »For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered my sanctuary on the same day to profane it. Then they did within my house. ⁴⁰ »Furthermore, they have even sent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent. They came and you bathed, painted your eyes and decorated yourselves with ornaments for them. ⁴¹ »You sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set my incense and my oil. ⁴² »The sound of a carefree multitude was with her. Drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort. And they put bracelets on the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads. ⁴³ »Then I said concerning her who was worn out by adultery: »Will they now commit adultery with her when she is thus? ⁴⁴ »But they went into her as they would go into a prostitute. Thus they went into Oholah and into Oholibah, the lewd women. ⁴⁵ »But they, righteous men, will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands. ⁴⁶ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Bring up a company against them and give them over to terror and plunder. ⁴⁷ ‘»The company will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords. They will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire. ⁴⁸ ’»Thus I will make lewdness cease from the land. All women will be admonished and not commit lewdness as you have done. ⁴⁹ ‘»Your lewdness will be repaid upon you. You will bear the penalty of worshiping your idols. You will know that I am the Lord Jehovah!’«

⁶ »Therefore, the Lord Jehovah says: ‘Woe to the bloody city, To the cooking pot in which there is rust and whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making a choice. ⁷ »»Her blood is in her midst. She placed it on the bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust. ⁸ ‘»That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have put her blood on the bare rock, that it may not be covered.’ ⁹ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. ¹⁰ ‘»Heap on the wood and kindle the fire. Boil the flesh well and mix in the spices and let the bones be burned. ¹¹ ‘»Then set it empty on its coals so that it may be hot and its copper may glow and its filthiness may be melted in it. Let its rust be consumed. ¹² ‘»She has made me tire with toil, yet her great rust has not gone from her. Let her rust be in the fire!’ ¹³ ‘»In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I would have cleansed you, yet you are not clean. You will not be cleansed from your filthiness again until I have spent my anger on you. ¹⁴ ‘»I, Jehovah, have spoken. It is coming and I will act. I will not relent, and I will not pity and I will not be sorry! I will judge you according to your ways and according to your deeds.’ This is a declaration of the Lord Jehovah.«

² They do nothing but swear, deceive, kill, steal and commit adultery! There is violence and bloodshed in the land.

⁵ »The pride of Israel testifies about them. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah will also stumble with them.

¹⁰ »Israel, your arrogance testifies against you. Even after all this, you do not return to Jehovah your God or look to him for help.

⁵ »We have sinned. We have dealt perversely. We have acted wickedly and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances. ⁶ »We have not listened to your servants the prophets who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷ »O Jehovah, righteousness belongs to you! Shame belongs to us this day! To the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you. ⁸ »O Jehovah, to us belongs shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

³² »Fill up the (guilt) measure of your fathers. ³³ »You serpents! You offspring of vipers! How will you escape from being destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom? (Greek: Gehenna, the trash fires in the valley just outside of Jerusalem)

¹⁹ We know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law. Every mouth may be stopped and the entire world may become liable to God for punishment. ²⁰ No flesh will be justified before God by works of the law. Knowledge of sin comes from the law.

¹⁵ They killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They did not please God and are contrary to all men. ¹⁶ They hindered us from speaking to the nations so that they may be saved. The result was that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.