Ezekiel 22:24 Cross References - Thomson

²⁴ Son of man say to this land, Thou art a land which was not watered with showers; nor did rain fall upon thee in the day of indignation.

²² but only added to his distress, and contributed to his apostacy from the Lord. For king Achaz said,

¹⁴ Now all the nobles of Juda, and the priests, and the people of the land abounded in the commission of the wicked abominations of the Gentiles, and had polluted the house of the Lord in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And the Lord the God of their fathers had sent to them by the ministry of his prophets, rising early, and sending his messengers, because he compassionated his people and his sanctuary. ¹⁶ But they continued to deride his messengers, and to despise his words, and insult his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord ascended against his people; until there was no remedy.

⁵ What! must you persisting in iniquity be smitten still more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint:

¹³ The people did not turn till they were smitten; as they indeed did not seek the Lord;

³⁰ In vain have I smitten your children, you did not receive instruction: a sword devoured your prophets, like a ravening lion; and you were not terrified.

³ [p] Lord, thine eyes look for faithfulness. Thou hast chastised them: but they have not grieved. Thou hast consumed them and they would not receive instruction. They have made their faces harder than a rock and refused to return.

²⁹ The bellows could not stand the fire: the lead is consumed. In vain doth the silversmith try to extract silver. Their wickedness was not to be melted.

¹⁶ In regard to this word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, ¹⁷ we will not hearken to thee; for we will continue to perform every word which shall proceed from our mouth to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her; as we and our fathers and our kings and our chiefs did in the cities of Juda and in the streets of Jerusalem; for we had then plenty of bread and were in happy circumstances and saw no evils: ¹⁸ but soon as we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven, we all became fewer in number, and were wasted by sword and famine. ¹⁹ Now grant that we have burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out libations to her, have we without our husbands, made cakes for her or poured out to her libations?

¹³ Its verdigrease shall be exposed to shame. Because thou wast polluted what else could be done, since thou wouldst not be cleansed till I filled up my wrath?

² This dove hearkened not to a voice. She received not instruction: she trusted not in the Lord; nor did she draw near to her God: