Ezekiel 23:48

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Ezekiel 23:48

Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

I cause

That

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I cause

Thus I will make your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’

In all your dwellings, cities will become waste and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and desolate, your idols may be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out.

I will scatter you among the nations and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will consume your uncleanness from you.

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

“I will also cut off the cities of your land
And tear down all your fortifications.

“I will remove man and beast;
I will remove the birds of the sky
And the fish of the sea,
And the

ruins along with the wicked;

And I will cut off man from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.

That

So it will be a reproach, a reviling, a warning and an object of horror to the nations who surround you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath and raging rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken.

They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay your lovers.

Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.

At night my soul longs for You,

Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently;
For when the earth experiences Your judgments
The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.

and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;