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 a chain; for the land is full of bloody judgments, and the city is full of violence.

And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? And you shall make her know all her abominations.

For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil will happen to you in the latter end of the days, because you will do evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands.

They have corrupted themselves: they are not His sons; it is their blemish; they are a crooked and perverse generation.

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

Also all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of Jehovah which He had made holy in Jerusalem.

Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger; they have gone away backward.

But your iniquities have come between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her open places, if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon her.

Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot do any good.

Please hear this, heads of the house of Jacob, and magistrates of the house of Israel, who hate justice and pervert all equity.

Woe to her rebelling and becoming defiled, to the oppressing city!

And the land

And He said to me, Have you seen, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they do the hateful things which they do here? For they have filled the land with violence and have turned to provoke Me to anger. And lo, they put the branch to their nose.

And also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing the evil in the sight of Jehovah.

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

Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; I did not find them by breaking in, but on all these.

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.

For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the just in her midst,

so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

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

Perverseness

Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, to get unjust gain.

And I said, Please hear, O heads of Jacob and magistrates of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?

Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler asks for a bribe, and the judge also; and the great man speaks the evil desire of his soul. So they weave it together.

The lord hath

And He said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each man in his image room? For they are saying, Jehovah does not see us; Jehovah has forsaken the earth.

And you say, What does God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?

He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will not see forever!

Yet they say, Jehovah shall not see, nor shall the God of Jacob observe it.

Woe to those who go deep to hide their purpose from Jehovah! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? And who knows us?

General references

For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.

You have multiplied your dead in this city, and you have filled its streets with the dead.