Ezekiel 33:29 Cross References - MLV

²⁹ Then they will know that I am Jehovah when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.

¹⁸ And the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah, when I have gotten for me honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen.

⁹ And the sons of Israel did things secretly that were not right against Jehovah their God. And they built for them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. ¹⁰ And they set up for them pillars and Asherim upon every high hill and under every green tree, ¹¹ and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as the nations did whom Jehovah carried away before them. And they worked wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger. ¹² And they served idols, of which Jehovah had said to them, You* will not do this thing.
¹³ Yet Jehovah testified to Israel and to Judah, by every prophet and every seer, saying, Turn from your* evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your* fathers and which I sent to you* by my servants the prophets. ¹⁴ Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but stiffened their neck, like the neck of their fathers who did not believe in Jehovah their God.
¹⁵ And they rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and his testimonies which he testified to them. And they followed vanity and became vain and went after the nations that were all around them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
¹⁶ And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God and made for them molten images, even two calves and made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.
¹⁷ And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire and used divination and enchantments and sold themselves to do what was evil in the sight of Jehovah to provoke him to anger.
¹⁸ Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but only the tribe of Judah.

¹⁴ Moreover all the chiefs of the priests and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of Jehovah which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
¹⁵ And Jehovah, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling-place. ¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his words and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Jehovah arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
¹⁷ Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed. He gave them all into his hand.

¹⁶ Jehovah has made himself known. He has executed justice. The wicked man is snared in the work of his own hands. A meditation. Selah.

¹⁷ Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish, ¹⁸ that they may know that you alone, whose name is Jehovah, are the Most High over all the earth.

¹ Run you* to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and know and seek in the broad places of it, if you* can find a man, if there is any who does justly, who seeks truth and I will pardon her. ² And though they say, As Jehovah lives, surely they swear falsely.
³ O Jehovah, do not your eyes look upon truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
⁴ Then I said, Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they do not know the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God. ⁵ I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Jehovah and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke and burst the bonds.
⁶ Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them; a wolf of the evenings will destroy them; a leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out from there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backslidings are increased. ⁷ How can I pardon you? Your sons have forsaken me and sworn by those who are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses. ⁸ They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
⁹ Shall I not visit for these things? says Jehovah. And will not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

²⁵ Your* iniquities have turned away these things and your* sins have withheld good from you*.
²⁶ For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap; they catch men. ²⁷ As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich. ²⁸ They have grown fat. They shine. Yes, they overflow in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper. And they do not judge the right of the needy.
²⁹ Shall I not visit for these things? says Jehovah. Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
³⁰ An astonishing and horrible thing has happen in the land. ³¹ The prophets prophesy falsely and the priests bear rule by their means. And my people love to have it so. And what will you* do in the end of it?

⁷ And the slain will fall in the midst of you*.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.

¹¹ The lord Jehovah says thus: Strike with your hand and stamp with your foot and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, by the famine and by the pestilence.

²⁷ The king will mourn and the ruler will be clothed with desolation and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled. I will do to them according to their way and according to their deserts I will judge them.
And they will know that I am Jehovah.

⁶ And he said to me, Son of man, see what they do, even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations.
⁷ And he brought me to the door of the court. And when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall. ⁸ Then he said to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall. And when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door. ⁹ And he said to me, Go in and see the wicked abominations that they do here.
¹⁰ So I went in and saw, and behold, every form of creeping things and abominable beasts and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall all around.
¹¹ And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel. And in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, each man with his censer in his hand and the odor 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 do in the dark, each man in his chambers of imagery? For they say, Jehovah does not see us. Jehovah has forsaken the land.
¹³ He also said to me, You will again see yet other great abominations which they do.
¹⁴ Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Jehovah's house which was toward the north. And behold, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz. ¹⁵ Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these.

² And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
³ And you will say, The lord Jehovah says thus: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come and who makes idols against herself to defile her! ⁴ You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed and are defiled in your idols which you have made. And you have caused your days to draw near and have come even to your years.
Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the countries. ⁵ Those that are near and those that are far from you, will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.
⁶ Behold, the rulers of Israel, each one according to his power, have been in you to shed blood. ⁷ In you they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of you they have dealt with the traveler by oppression. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. ⁸ You have despised my holy things and have profaned my Sabbaths. ⁹ Slanderers have been in you to shed blood and in you they have eaten upon the mountains. In the midst of you they have committed lewdness. ¹⁰ In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness. In you they have humbled her who was unclean in her impurity. ¹¹ And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
¹² In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase. And you have greedily gained from your neighbors by oppression and have forgotten me, says the lord Jehovah.
¹³ Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
¹⁴ Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Jehovah, have spoken it and will do it.
¹⁵ And I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries and I will consume your filthiness out of you.

²⁵ There is a conspiracy by her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many in the midst of it.
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 common, nor have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths and I am profaned among them.
²⁷ Her rulers in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
²⁸ And her prophets have daubed with untempered mortar for them, seeing false visions and divining lies to them, saying, The lord Jehovah says thus, when Jehovah has not spoken.
²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have distressed the poor and needy man and have oppressed the traveler wrongfully.
³⁰ And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
³¹ Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way upon their heads, says the lord Jehovah.

⁴⁹ And they will recompense your* lewdness upon you* and you* will bear the sins of your* idols. And you* will know that I am the lord Jehovah.

¹¹ And I will execute judgments upon Moab.
And they will know that I am Jehovah.

¹⁷ Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their practices. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
¹⁸ Therefore I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood which they had poured out upon the land and because they had defiled it with their idols.

⁹ The voice of Jehovah cries to the city and the man of wisdom will see your name. Hear the rod and who has appointed it. ¹⁰ Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and a scant measure that is indignant? ¹¹ Shall I be pure with wicked balances and with a bag of deceitful weights? ¹² For the rich men of it are full of violence and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

¹ Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, to the oppressing city! ² She obeyed not the voice. She received not correction. She trusted not in Jehovah. She did not draw near to her God. ³ Her rulers in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morrow. ⁴ Her prophets are airy and treacherous men. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.