Ezekiel 22:3 Cross References - TKJU

³ Then say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "The city sheds blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself.

² And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. ³ For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, "In Jerusalem will I put my name. ⁵ And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. ⁶ And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: He worked much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. ⁷ And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever: ⁸ Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. ⁹ But they did not hearken: And Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

¹ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ² "Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD; "I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your espousals, when you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. ³ Israel was holiness to the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: All that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them", said the LORD.' "

² "Also you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel; 'An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land. ³ Now the end has come on you, and I will send My anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense upon you all your abominations. ⁴ And My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: But I will recompense your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you: And you shall know that I am the LORD.' ⁵ Thus says the Lord GOD; 'Behold, an evil, a one of a kind evil, has come. ⁶ An end has come, the end has come: It watches for you; behold, it has come. ⁷ The morning has come to you, O you who dwell in the land: The time has come, the day of trouble is near, and not the joyful sounds of the mountains again. ⁸ Shortly now I will pour out My fury on you, and accomplish My anger upon you: And I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations. ⁹ And My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and your abominations that are in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD who smites. ¹⁰ Behold the day, behold, it has come: The morning has gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded. ¹¹ Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness: None of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor any of their abundance: Neither shall there be wailing for them. ¹² The time has come, the day draws near: Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: For wrath is upon all their multitude.

²⁵ For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall not be prolonged any longer: For in your days, O rebellious house, I will say the word, and will perform it", said the Lord GOD.

⁴ You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed; and have defiled yourself in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the full measure of your years: Therefore I have made you a reproach to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

⁶ Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone in you has used their power to shed blood.

²⁷ Her princes in the middle of her are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

³⁷ that they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire for them, to devour them.

⁴⁵ And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands."

⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; "Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum has not gone out of it! Bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it. ⁷ For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the top of a rock; she did not pour it upon the ground, to cover it with dust; ⁸ that it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood on the top of a rock, that it should not be covered." ⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; "Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.

³ Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw the bones until the next day.

⁵ But according to your hardness and impenitent heart you treasure up for yourself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

³ And through covetousness they shall make merchandise of you with feigned words: Whose judgment will now not linger for a long time, and their damnation does not slumber.