Isaiah 59:12 Cross References
Isaiah 59:12
12: For our sins are piled up before God and testify against us. Yes, we know what sinners we are.
Ezra 9:6
- I prayed, "O my God, I am utterly ashamed; I blush to lift up my face to you. For our sins are piled higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached to the heavens.
Hosea 5:5
- "The arrogance of Israel testifies against her; she will stumble under her load of guilt. Judah, too, will fall with her.
Jeremiah 14:7
- The people say, "LORD, our wickedness has caught up with us. We have sinned against you. So please, help us for the sake of your own reputation.
Jeremiah 3:2
- "Look all around you. Is there anywhere in the entire land where you have not been defiled by your adulteries? You sit like a prostitute beside the road waiting for a client. You sit alone like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
Ezekiel 22:2
- "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.
Ezekiel 7:23
- "Prepare chains for my people, for the land is bloodied by terrible crimes. Jerusalem is filled with violence.
Matthew 23:32
- Go ahead. Finish what they started.
- Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?
Nehemiah 9:33
- Every time you punished us you were being just. We have sinned greatly, and you gave us only what we deserved.
Ezekiel 24:6
- "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.
- Yes, heap on the wood! Let the fire roar to make the pot boil. Cook the meat well with many spices. Then empty the pot and burn the bones.
Isaiah 3:9
- The very look on their faces gives them away and displays their guilt. They sin openly like the people of Sodom. They are not one bit ashamed. How terrible it will be for them! They have brought about their own destruction.
Ezekiel 23:2
- "Son of man, once there were two sisters who were daughters of the same mother.
- They became prostitutes in Egypt. Even as young girls, they allowed themselves to be fondled and caressed.
- The older girl was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. I married them, and they bore me sons and daughters. I am speaking of Samaria and Jerusalem, for Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
- "Then Oholah lusted after other lovers instead of me, and she gave her love to the Assyrians, her neighbors.
- They were all attractive young men, captains and commanders dressed in handsome blue, dashing about on their horses.
Hosea 4:2
- You curse and lie and kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere, with one murder after another.
Jeremiah 5:3
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- So now a lion from the forest will attack them; a wolf from the desert will pounce on them. A leopard will lurk near their towns, tearing apart any who dare to venture out. For their rebellion is great, and their sins are many.
- "How can I pardon you? For even your children have turned from me. They have sworn by gods that are not gods at all! I fed my people until they were fully satisfied. But they thanked me by committing adultery and lining up at the city's brothels.
Hosea 7:10
- His arrogance testifies against him, yet he doesn't return to the LORD his God or even try to find him.
Romans 3:19
- Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses and to bring the entire world into judgment before God.
- For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it.
Jeremiah 7:8
- " `Do you think that because the Temple is here you will never suffer? Don't fool yourselves!
- Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and worship Baal and all those other new gods of yours,
- and then come here and stand before me in my Temple and chant, "We are safe!"--only to go right back to all those evils again?
Jeremiah 5:25
- Your wickedness has deprived you of these wonderful blessings. Your sin has robbed you of all these good things.
- "Among my people are wicked men who lie in wait for victims like a hunter hiding in a blind. They are continually setting traps for other people.
- Like a cage filled with birds, their homes are filled with evil plots. And the result? Now they are great and rich.
- They are well fed and well groomed, and there is no limit to their wicked deeds. They refuse justice to orphans and deny the rights of the poor.
- Should I not punish them for this?" asks the LORD. "Should I not avenge myself against a nation such as this?
Ezekiel 16:51
- "Even Samaria did not commit half your sins. You have done far more loathsome things than your sisters ever did. They seem righteous compared to you!
- You should be deeply ashamed because your sins are so terrible. In comparison, you make your sisters seem innocent!
Ezekiel 5:6
- but she has rebelled against my regulations and has been even more wicked than the surrounding nations. She has refused to obey the laws I gave her to follow.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
- For some of the Jews had killed their own prophets, and some even killed the Lord Jesus. Now they have persecuted us and driven us out. They displease God and oppose everyone
- by trying to keep us from preaching the Good News to the Gentiles, for fear some might be saved. By doing this, they continue to pile up their sins. But the anger of God has caught up with them at last.
Ezekiel 8:8
- He said to me, "Now, son of man, dig into the wall." So I dug into the wall and uncovered a door to a hidden room.
- "Go in," he said, "and see the unspeakable wickedness going on in there!"
- So I went in and saw the walls engraved with all kinds of snakes, lizards, and hideous creatures. I also saw the various idols worshiped by the people of Israel.
- Seventy leaders of Israel were standing there with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan in the middle. Each of them held an incense burner, so there was a thick cloud of incense above their heads.
- 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!'"
Ezra 9:13
- "Now we are being punished because of our wickedness and our great guilt. But we have actually been punished far less than we deserve, for you, our God, have allowed some of us to survive as a remnant.
Daniel 9:5
- But we have sinned and done wrong. We have rebelled against you and scorned your commands and regulations.
- We have refused to listen to your servants the prophets, who spoke your messages to our kings and princes and ancestors and to all the people of the land.
- "Lord, you are in the right; but our faces are covered with shame, just as you see us now. This is true of us all, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far, wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you.
- O LORD, we and our kings, princes, and ancestors are covered with shame because we have sinned against you.
Ezekiel 22:24
- "Son of man, give the people of Israel this message: In the day of my indignation, you will become like an uncleared wilderness or a desert without rain.
- 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.
- 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.
- Your leaders are like wolves, who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people's lives for profit!
- 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!
Isaiah 1:4
- 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.