Ezekiel 24:21 Cross References - NSB

²¹ »Speak to the house of Israel. Tell them Jehovah says: ‘I am about to profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and your delight. Your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

⁴ I have asked one thing from Jehovah. This I will seek: to live in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to look at Jehovah’s beauty and search for an answer in his temple.

⁷ They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your name.

¹ ([Psalm of Asaph]) O God, the nations have invaded the land that belongs to you. They have dishonored (defiled) your holy temple. They have left Jerusalem in ruins.

¹ ([Psalm of Korah]) How lovely are your dwelling places, O Jehovah of Hosts!

⁶ Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

⁴ Seek Jehovah and seek his strength. Seek his presence constantly!

⁸ O Jehovah, arise, and come to your resting place with the ark of your power.

¹¹ »But as for you who forsake Jehovah and forget my holy mountain, which spread a table for the God of Fortune (Babylonian diety) and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,

¹¹ I am full of the wrath of Jehovah. I am weary with holding it in. Pour it out on the children in the street and on the gathering of young men together. For both husband and wife will be taken, the aged and the very old.

¹⁴ »Consider what I will do to the house that is called by my name. It is the house in which you trust. It is the place I gave you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

²¹ Death has come through our windows and entered our palaces. Death has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the market places.

³ Jehovah says this about the sons and daughters born in this place, and about their mothers who bear them, and their fathers who begot them in this land: ⁴ »They will die of lethal diseases. They will not be mourned or buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground and die by sword and famine (war and starvation). Their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.«

¹⁰ The hand of her enemies is stretched out over all her desired things. She sees the nations come into her holy place. Whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.

⁶ He violently takes away his tent, as from a garden. And he lays waste his meeting-place. Jehovah has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion. In the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest. ⁷ Jehovah rejected his altar and disowned his holy place. He gave up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses. Their voices have been loud in the house of Jehovah as in the day of a holy meeting.

²⁰ ‘»Once they were proud of their beautiful jewels, but they used them to make disgusting idols. That is why Jehovah has made their wealth repulsive to them. ²¹ ‘»I will hand it all over as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, and they will defile it. ²² ‘»I will turn my face away from them. They will desecrate my treasured place. Robbers will enter it and desecrate it.

⁷ He said to them: »Dishonor the Temple! Fill its courtyards with dead people, and then leave.« So they went out and killed the people in the city.

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.

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.

¹⁶ »Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the desire of your eyes with a blow. You will, however, not mourn and you will not weep, and your tears will not come.

³¹ »His armed forces will stand with him, and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and will take away the continual burnt offering. They will set up the abomination that makes desolate.

¹³ They brought false witnesses, which said: »This man will not stop speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law. ¹⁴ »We heard him say: ‘This Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us.’«