Ezekiel 18:25 Cross References - LITV

²⁵ Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. Hear now, O house of Israel. Is My way not fair? Are your ways not unfair?

²⁵ Far be it from You to act in this way, to put to death the righteous with the wicked. Far be it from You. The Judge of all the earth, shall He not do right?

⁴ He is the Rock; His work is perfect. For all His ways are just, a God of faithfulness, and without evil; just and upright is He.

² And burned the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; his wrath burned against Job, because he had justified himself rather than God.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous; also, God has taken away my right; ⁶ should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable, yet I am without rebellion. ⁷ What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water; ⁸ who goes in company with those who work iniquity, and walks with wicked men? ⁹ For he has said, It is no benefit for a man when he is accepted with God. ¹⁰ So, O man of heart, listen to me; far be it from God to do wickedness; and the Almighty, to do evilly.

² Do you think this to be just, you that say, I am more just than God?

⁸ Will you also set aside My judgment; will you condemn Me so that you may be justified?

⁴ I pray, Listen, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You will make me know. ⁵ I have heard of You by hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen You; ⁶ Therefore, I despise myself, and I have repented on dust and ashes.

⁶ And the heavens shall declare His righteousness, for God Himself is judge. Selah.

²¹ You have done these things, and I have kept silence; you thought that surely I would be like you; but I will rebuke you and set in order before your eyes.

¹⁷ Jehovah is righteous in all His ways, and kind in all His works.

¹⁷ Have you not done this to yourself by your forsaking Jehovah your God when He led you by the way? ¹⁸ And now what is for you toward the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or what for you toward Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? ¹⁹ Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your apostasies shall reprove you. Know, then, and see that your forsaking Jehovah your God is evil and bitter; and My fear is not in you, declares the Lord Jehovah of hosts. ²⁰ For long ago you broke your yoke and tore up your bonds. And you said, I will not transgress, when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a harlot. ²¹ Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate shoots of an alien vine to Me? ²² Though you wash yourself with potash, and multiply soap for yourself, your iniquity is stained before Me, declares the Lord Jehovah. ²³ How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after Baals? See your way in the valley; know what you have done! You are a swift camel crossing her ways;

²⁹ Why do you contend with Me? All of you, you have rebelled against Me, says Jehovah. ³⁰ In vain I have stricken your sons; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. ³¹ O generation, see the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, We roam; we will come no more to You. ³² Can a virgin forget her finery, a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number. ³³ What? Do you trim your ways to seek love? For this reason you have even taught the evil women your ways. ³⁴ Also on your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; you did not find them breaking in, but on all these. ³⁵ Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will judge with you, because you say, I have not sinned. ³⁶ Why do you go about so much to change your way? You also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria. ³⁷ Yes, you shall go out from this place, and your hands on your head. For Jehovah has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.

¹ Righteous are You, O Jehovah, when I might complain to You, yet let me speak with You of Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those who deal treacherously at ease?

¹⁰ And it shall be, when you declare to this people all these words, they will say to you, Why has Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? Or what is our iniquity, or what our sin that we have committed against Jehovah our God? ¹¹ Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken Me, says Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My law. ¹² And you have done more evil than your fathers. For, behold, you each one walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to Me. ¹³ And I will cast you out of this land into a land that you do not know, you nor your fathers. And there you shall serve other gods day and night, where I will not grant you favor.

²⁹ But the house of Israel says, The way of the Lord is not fair. Are My ways not fair, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not fair?

¹⁷ Yet the sons of your people say, The way of the Lord is not fair. But they, even their way is not fair.

²⁰ Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. I shall judge you, each man by his ways, O house of Israel.

⁵ The righteous Jehovah is in her midst; He will not act perversely. Every morning He gives His justice to the light; He does not fail, but the unjust knows no shame.

¹⁷ You have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet you say, In what have we wearied Him? When you say, Every evildoer is good in the eyes of Jehovah, and He delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

¹³ Your words have been strong against Me, says Jehovah. Yet you say, What have we spoken against you? ¹⁴ You have said, It is vain to serve God. And, What profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked as mourners before Jehovah of hosts? ¹⁵ And now we are calling the arrogant blessed. Not only are the doers of wickedness built up, they also test God, and escape.

¹¹ And receiving it, they murmured against the housemaster, ¹² saying, These last have performed one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day. ¹³ But answering, he said to one of them, Friend, I am not unjust to you. Did you not agree to a denarius with me? ¹⁴ Take yours and go. But I desire to give to this last as also to you. ¹⁵ Or is it not lawful for me to do what I desire with my things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?

⁵ But according to your hardness and your impenitent heart, do you treasure up to yourself wrath in a day of wrath, and revelation of a righteous judgment of God? ⁶ He "will give to each according to his works:" LXX-Psa. 61:13; MT-Psa. 62:12

⁵ But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who lays on wrath? I speak according to man.

²⁰ Because by works of law not one of all flesh will be justified before Him, for through law is full knowledge of sin. Psa. 143:2

²⁰ Yes, rather, O man, who are you answering against God? Shall the thing formed say to the One forming it, Why did You make me like this? Isa. 29:16

³ For being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.