Ezekiel 9:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

The iniquity

And the land

Perverseness

Ezekiel 22:27

Micah 3:1

Micah 7:3

The lord hath

Isaiah 29:15

General references

Jeremiah 16:17

Ezekiel 11:6

Bible References

The iniquity

Make the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

And thou, son of man, will thou judge, will thou judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.

For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil will befall you in the latter days, because ye will do that which is evil in the sight of LORD, to

They have dealt corruptly with him. [They are] not his sons, [it is] their blemish, a perverse and crooked generation.

And it was so, because the sons of Israel had sinned against LORD their God who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

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 LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, sons who deal corruptly! They have forsaken LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have gone away backward.

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you so that he will not hear.

Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places if it, if ye can find a man, if there is any who does justly, who seeks truth, and I will pardon her.

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, to the oppressing city!

And the land

Then he said to me, Have thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to prov

Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin in doing that which was evil in the sight of LORD.

and also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and LORD would not pardon.

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor. Thou did not find them breaking in. But it is because of all these things.

But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

so that the blood of all the prophets that was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

Perverseness

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.

And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?

Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler asks, and the judge [is ready] for a bribe. And the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul. Thus they weave it together.

The lord hath

Then he said to me, Son of man, have thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each man in his chambers of imagery? For they say, LORD does not see us. LORD has forsaken the land.

And thou say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

He says in his heart, God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.

And they say, LORD will not see, nor will the God of Jacob consider.

Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from LORD, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and, Who knows us?

General references

For my eyes are upon all their ways. They are not hid from my face, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.

Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.