Ezekiel 9:9 Cross References

Ezekiel 9:9

9: 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!'

Job 22:13

  1. But you reply, `That's why God can't see what I am doing! How can he judge through the thick darkness?

Ezekiel 8:12

  1. Then the LORD said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the leaders of Israel are doing with their idols in dark rooms? They are saying, `The LORD doesn't see us; he has deserted our land!'"

Ezekiel 7:23

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

2 Chronicles 36:14

  1. All the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful. They followed the pagan practices of the surrounding nations, desecrating the Temple of the LORD in Jerusalem.
  2. The LORD, the God of their ancestors, repeatedly sent his prophets to warn them, for he had compassion on his people and his Temple.
  3. But the people mocked these messengers of God and despised their words. They scoffed at the prophets until the LORD's anger could no longer be restrained and there was no remedy.

Isaiah 29:15

  1. Destruction is certain for those who try to hide their plans from the LORD, who try to keep him in the dark concerning what they do! "The LORD can't see us," you say to yourselves. "He doesn't know what is going on!"

Jeremiah 2:34

  1. 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!

2 Kings 21:16

  1. 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.

Micah 3:1

  1. Listen, you leaders of Israel! You are supposed to know right from wrong,
  2. but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
  3. You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.

Psalms 10:11

  1. The wicked say to themselves, "God isn't watching! He will never notice!"

Psalms 94:7

  1. "The LORD isn't looking," they say, "and besides, the God of Israel doesn't care."

Ezekiel 22:2

  1. "Son of man, are you ready to judge Jerusalem? Are you ready to judge this city of murderers? Denounce her terrible deeds in public,
  2. and give her this message from the Sovereign LORD: O city of murderers, doomed and damned--city of idols, filthy and foul--
  3. 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.
  4. O infamous city, filled with confusion, you will be mocked by people both far and near.
  5. "Every leader in Israel who lives within your walls is bent on murder.

Isaiah 59:12

  1. For our sins are piled up before God and testify against us. Yes, we know what sinners we are.
  2. We know that we have rebelled against the LORD. We have turned our backs on God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies.
  3. Our courts oppose people who are righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth falls dead in the streets, and fairness has been outlawed.
  4. Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who tries to live a godly life is soon attacked. The LORD looked and was displeased to find that there was no justice.

Zephaniah 3:1

  1. How terrible it will be for rebellious, polluted Jerusalem, the city of violence and crime.
  2. It proudly refuses to listen even to the voice of the LORD. No one can tell it anything; it refuses all correction. It does not trust in the LORD or draw near to its God.
  3. 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.
  4. Its prophets are arrogant liars seeking their own gain. Its priests defile the Temple by disobeying God's laws.

Jeremiah 7:8

  1. " `Do you think that because the Temple is here you will never suffer? Don't fool yourselves!
  2. Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and worship Baal and all those other new gods of yours,

Deuteronomy 32:15

  1. But Israel soon became fat and unruly; the people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed! Then they abandoned the God who had made them; they made light of the Rock of their salvation.
  2. They stirred up his jealousy by worshiping foreign gods; they provoked his fury with detestable acts.
  3. They offered sacrifices to demons, non-gods, to gods they had not known before, to gods only recently arrived, to gods their ancestors had never feared.
  4. You neglected the Rock who had fathered you; you forgot the God who had given you birth.
  5. "The LORD saw this and was filled with loathing. He was provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters.

Deuteronomy 31:29

  1. I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and will turn from the path I have commanded you to follow. In the days to come, disaster will come down on you, for you will make the LORD very angry by doing what is evil in his sight."

Ezekiel 8:17

  1. "Have you seen this, son of man?" he asked. "Is it nothing to the people of Judah that they commit these terrible sins, leading the whole nation into violence, thumbing their noses at me, and rousing my fury against them?

Jeremiah 22:17

  1. "But you! You are full of selfish greed and dishonesty! You murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly."

Luke 11:50

  1. "And you of this generation will be held responsible for the murder of all God's prophets from the creation of the world--

Micah 3:9

  1. Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right.
  2. You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption.
  3. You rulers govern for the bribes you can get; you priests teach God's laws only for a price; you prophets won't prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim you are depending on the LORD. "No harm can come to us," you say, "for the LORD is here among us."
  4. So because of you, Mount Zion will be plowed like an open field; Jerusalem will be reduced to rubble! A great forest will grow on the hilltop, where the Temple now stands.

2 Kings 17:7

  1. This disaster came upon the nation of Israel because the people worshiped other gods, sinning against the LORD their God, who had brought them safely out of their slavery in Egypt.
  2. They had imitated the practices of the pagan nations the LORD had driven from the land before them, as well as the practices the kings of Israel had introduced.
  3. The people of Israel had also secretly done many things that were not pleasing to the LORD their God. They built pagan shrines for themselves in all their towns, from the smallest outpost to the largest walled city.
  4. They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles at the top of every hill and under every green tree.
  5. They burned incense at the shrines, just like the nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of them. So the people of Israel had done many evil things, arousing the LORD's anger.

2 Kings 24:4

  1. He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not forgive this.

Matthew 23:35

  1. 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.
  2. I assure you, all the accumulated judgment of the centuries will break upon the heads of this very generation.
  3. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn't let me.

Jeremiah 5:1

  1. "Run up and down every street in Jerusalem," says the LORD. "Look high and low; search throughout the city! If you can find even one person who is just and honest, I will not destroy the city.
  2. Even when they are under oath, saying, `As surely as the LORD lives,' they all tell lies!"
  3. LORD, you are searching for honesty. You struck your people, but they paid no attention. You crushed them, but they refused to turn from sin. They are determined, with faces set like stone; they have refused to repent.
  4. Then I said, "But what can we expect from the poor and ignorant? They don't know the ways of the LORD. They don't understand what God expects of them.
  5. I will go and speak to their leaders. Surely they will know the LORD's ways and what God requires of them." But the leaders, too, had utterly rejected their God.

Ezekiel 22:25

  1. Your princes plot conspiracies just as lions stalk their prey. They devour innocent people, seizing treasures and extorting wealth. They increase the number of widows in the land.
  2. Your priests have violated my laws and defiled my holy things. To them there is no difference between what is holy and what is not. And they do not teach my people the difference between what is ceremonially clean and unclean. They disregard my Sabbath days so that my holy name is greatly dishonored among them.
  3. Your leaders are like wolves, who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people's lives for profit!
  4. And your prophets announce false visions and speak false messages. They say, `My message is from the Sovereign LORD,' when the LORD hasn't spoken a single word to them. They repair cracked walls with whitewash!
  5. Even common people oppress the poor, rob the needy, and deprive foreigners of justice.

Lamentations 4:13

  1. Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets and priests, who defiled the city by shedding innocent blood.
  2. They wandered blindly through the streets, so defiled by blood that no one dared to touch them.

Micah 7:3

  1. They go about their evil deeds with both hands. How skilled they are at using them! Officials and judges alike demand bribes. The people with money and influence pay them off, and together they scheme to twist justice.
  2. Even the best of them is like a brier; the straightest is more crooked than a hedge of thorns. But your judgment day is coming swiftly now. Your time of punishment is here.

Deuteronomy 32:5

  1. "But they have acted corruptly toward him; when they act like that, are they really his children? They are a deceitful and twisted generation.

Isaiah 59:2

  1. But there is a problem--your sins have cut you off from God. Because of your sin, he has turned away and will not listen anymore.
  2. Your hands are the hands of murderers, and your fingers are filthy with sin. Your mouth is full of lies, and your lips are tainted with corruption.
  3. No one cares about being fair and honest. Their lawsuits are based on lies. They spend their time plotting evil deeds and then doing them.
  4. They spend their time and energy spinning evil plans that end up in deadly actions.
  5. They cheat and shortchange everyone. Nothing they do is productive; all their activity is filled with sin. Violence is their trademark.

Isaiah 1:4

  1. Oh, what a sinful nation they are! They are loaded down with a burden of guilt. They are evil and corrupt children who have turned away from the LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel, cutting themselves off from his help.
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