Isaiah 59:12

Rampant Transgression

¹¹ We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us. ¹² For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins: ¹³ We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.

Before God

Sin

Ezra 9:6

I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

Jeremiah 14:7

Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.

Hosea 5:5

And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.

Ezra 9:13

And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

Nehemiah 9:33

But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:

Isaiah 1:4

O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

Isaiah 3:9

Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

Jeremiah 3:2

Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

Jeremiah 5:3-9

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

Jeremiah 5:25-29

Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.

Jeremiah 7:8-10

See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

Ezekiel 5:6

And she has gone against my orders by doing evil more than the nations, and against my rules more than the countries round her: for they have given up my orders, and as for my rules, they have not gone in the way of them.

Ezekiel 7:23

Make the chain: for the land is full of crimes of blood, and the town is full of violent acts.

Ezekiel 8:8-16

And he said to me, Son of man, make a hole in the wall: and after making a hole in the wall I saw a door.

Ezekiel 16:51-52

And Samaria has not done half your sins; but you have made the number of your disgusting acts greater than theirs, making your sisters seem more upright than you by all the disgusting things which you have done.

Ezekiel 22:2-12

And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways.

Ezekiel 22:24-30

Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no rain or thunderstorm has come in the day of wrath.

Ezekiel 23:2-49

Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:

Ezekiel 24:6-14

For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it.

Daniel 9:5-8

We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:

Hosea 4:2

There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

Hosea 7:10

And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.

Matthew 23:32-33

Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.

Romans 3:19-20

Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;