Ezekiel 5:11

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Summary

Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

Thou hast

Detestable

Jeremiah 44:4

Will i

Ezekiel 29:15

Psalm 107:39

Jeremiah 10:24

Neither shall

General references

Ezekiel 11:18

Bible References

Thou hast

The Lord said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” I looked to the north, and there was this offensive statue north of the altar gate, at the entrance.

“For this is what the Lord God says: I am going to hand you over to those you hate, to those you turned away from in disgust.

When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in both heart and flesh, to occupy My sanctuary, you defiled My temple while you offered My food—the fat and the blood. You broke My covenant by all your detestable practices.

He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, “Jerusalem is where I will put My name.”

The king tore down the altars that were on the roof—Ahaz’s upper chamber that the kings of Judah had made—and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. Then he smashed them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where Yahweh had said, “Jerusalem is where My name will remain forever.”

All the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, imitating all the detestable practices of the nations, and they defiled the Lord’s temple that He had consecrated in Jerusalem.

“Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?

They have placed their detestable things in the house that is called by My name and have defiled it.

Detestable

He appointed His beautiful ornaments for majesty,
but they made their abhorrent images from them,
their detestable things.
Therefore, I have made these
into something filthy for them.

“When they arrive there, they will remove all its detestable things and practices from it.

You must burn up the carved images of their gods. Don’t covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

I will first repay them double for their guilt and sin because they have polluted My land. They have filled My inheritance with the lifelessness of their detestable and abhorrent idols.”

So I sent you all My servants the prophets time and time again, saying: Don’t do this detestable thing that I hate.

Will i

Egypt will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself over the nations. I will make them so small they cannot rule over the nations.

When they are diminished and are humbled
by cruel oppression and sorrow,

Discipline me, Lord, but with justice—
not in Your anger,
or You will reduce me to nothing.

Neither shall

I will not look on you with pity or spare you,
but I will punish you for your ways
and for your detestable practices within you.
Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not show pity or spare them. Though they cry out in My ears with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.”

He spoke as I listened to the others, “Pass through the city after him and start killing; do not show pity or spare them!

I, Yahweh, have spoken.
It is coming, and I will do it!
I will not refrain, I will not show pity,
and I will not relent.
I will judge you
according to your ways and deeds.
This is the declaration of the Lord God.

The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,

שׁ ShinBoth young and old
are lying on the ground in the streets.
My young men and women
have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of Your anger,
slaughtering without compassion.

Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”

“They will be Mine,” says the Lord of Hosts, “a special possession on the day I am preparing. I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.

He did not even spare His own Son
but offered Him up for us all;
how will He not also with Him grant us everything?

For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you either.

For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus

and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment;

General references

“When they arrive there, they will remove all its detestable things and practices from it.