Ezekiel 11:6 Cross References

Ezekiel 11:6

6: You have murdered endlessly and filled your streets with the dead.

"Prepare chains for my people, for the land is bloodied by terrible crimes. Jerusalem is filled with violence.

There are hired murderers, loan racketeers, and extortioners everywhere! They never even think of me and my commands, says the Sovereign LORD.

From now on, when you lift up your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen. For your hands are covered with the blood of your innocent victims.

"Son of man, are you ready to judge Jerusalem? Are you ready to judge this city of murderers? Denounce her terrible deeds in public,
and give her this message from the Sovereign LORD: O city of murderers, doomed and damned--city of idols, filthy and foul--
you are guilty of both murder and idolatry. Your day of destruction has come! You have reached the end of your years. I will make you an object of mockery throughout the world.
O infamous city, filled with confusion, you will be mocked by people both far and near.
"Every leader in Israel who lives within your walls is bent on murder.

People accuse others falsely and send them to their death. You are filled with idol worshipers and people who take part in lewd activities.

Your leaders are like wolves, who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people's lives for profit!

As a result, you will become guilty of murdering all the godly people from righteous Abel to Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered in the Temple between the altar and the sanctuary.

Your clothing is stained with the blood of the innocent and the poor. You killed them even though they didn't break into your houses!

and if you stop exploiting foreigners, orphans, and widows; and if you stop your murdering; and if you stop worshiping idols as you now do to your own harm.

Its leaders are like roaring lions hunting for their victims--out for everything they can get. Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time, who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.

but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.

Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets and priests, who defiled the city by shedding innocent blood.

You curse and lie and kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere, with one murder after another.
That is why your land is not producing. It is filled with sadness, and all living things are becoming sick and dying. Even the animals, birds, and fish have begun to disappear.

Then he said to me, "The sins of the people of Israel and Judah are very great. The entire land is full of murder; the city is filled with injustice. They are saying, `The LORD doesn't see it! The LORD has forsaken the land!'

The godly people have all disappeared; not one fair-minded person is left on the earth. They are all murderers, even setting traps for their own brothers.

"Now this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Destruction is certain for Jerusalem, the city of murderers! She is a pot filled with corruption. So take the meat out chunk by chunk in whatever order it comes,
for her wickedness is evident to all. She murders boldly, leaving blood on the rocks for all to see. She doesn't even try to cover it!
So I will splash her blood on a rock as an open expression of my anger and vengeance against her.
"This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Destruction is certain for Jerusalem, the city of murderers! I myself will pile up the fuel beneath her.

I have punished your children, but it did them no good. They still refuse to obey. You yourselves have killed your prophets as a lion kills its prey.

Manasseh also murdered many innocent people until Jerusalem was filled from one end to the other with innocent blood. This was in addition to the sin that he caused the people of Judah to commit, leading them to do evil in the LORD's sight.

Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and worship Baal and all those other new gods of yours,

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