Ezekiel 16:49

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Pride

Fulness

Neither

Luke 16:20

General references

Genesis 19:5

Luke 17:28

Bible References

Pride

“Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: This is what the Lord God says:

Your heart is proud,
and you have said, ‘I am a god;
I sit in the seat of gods
in the heart of the sea.’
Yet you are a man and not a god,
though you have regarded your heart
as that of a god.

Speak to him and say: This is what the Lord God says:

Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great monster

lying in the middle of his Nile,

who says, ‘My Nile is my own;
I made it for myself.’

“Get out of the way!” they said, adding, “This one came here as a foreigner, but he’s acting like a judge! Now we’ll do more harm to you than to them.” They put pressure on Lot and came up to break down the door.

Though the Lord is exalted,
He takes note of the humble;
but He knows the haughty from a distance.

Everyone with a proud heart is detestable to the Lord;
be assured, he will not go unpunished.

Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud,
but humility comes before honor.

The lamp that guides the wicked—
haughty eyes and an arrogant heart—is sin.

The look on their faces testifies against them,
and like Sodom, they flaunt their sin.
They do not conceal it.
Woe to them,
for they have brought evil on themselves.

We have heard of Moab’s pride—
how very proud he is—
his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance,
and his empty boasting.

the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built by my vast power to be a royal residence and to display my majestic glory?”

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you and your nobles, wives, and concubines drank wine from them, you praised the gods made of silver and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or understand. But you have not glorified the God who holds your life-breath in His hand and who controls the whole course of your life.

Your presumptuous heart has deceived you,
you who live in clefts of the rock

in your home on the heights,
who say to yourself,
“Who can bring me down to the ground?”

In the same way, you younger men, be subject to the elders. And all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because

God resists the proud
but gives grace to the humble.

Fulness

Lot looked out and saw that the entire Jordan Valley as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden and the land of Egypt. This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is immense, and their sin is extremely serious.

Then Jeshurun

became fat and rebelled—

you became fat, bloated, and gorged.
He abandoned the God who made him
and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

But look: joy and gladness,
butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep,
eating of meat, and drinking of wine—
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

You dismiss any thought of the evil day
and bring in a reign of violence.

Then He told them a parable: “A rich man’s land was very productive.

“There was a rich man who would dress in purple and fine linen, feasting lavishly every day.

It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.

“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly

Neither

and when he oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, and does not return collateral, and when he raises his eyes to the idols, commits detestable acts,

The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor
will himself also call out and not be answered.

The Lord brings this charge
against the elders and leaders of His people:
“You have devastated the vineyard.
The plunder from the poor is in your houses.

Therefore, because you trample on the poor
and exact a grain tax from him,
you will never live in the houses of cut stone
you have built;
you will never drink the wine
from the lush vineyards
you have planted.

Hear this, you who trample on the needy
and do away with the poor of the land,

You hate good and love evil.
You tear off people’s skin
and strip their flesh from their bones.

But a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, was left at his gate.

General references

They called out to Lot and said, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have sex with them!”

It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.