Thematic Bible: Polluted, by sin


Thematic Bible



Look to the barren heights and see.
Where have you not been immoral?
You sat waiting for them beside the highways
like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land
with your prostitution and wickedness.

They shed innocent blood—
the blood of their sons and daughters
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
so the land became polluted with blood.

I brought you to a fertile land
to eat its fruit and bounty,
but after you entered, you defiled My land;
you made My inheritance detestable.

The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

Do not make the land unclean where you live and where I reside; for I, Yahweh, reside among the Israelites.”

The earth is polluted by its inhabitants,
for they have transgressed teachings,
overstepped decrees,
and broken the everlasting covenant.

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.”

Get up and leave,
for this is not your place of rest,
because defilement brings destruction—
a grievous destruction!


Look to the barren heights and see.
Where have you not been immoral?
You sat waiting for them beside the highways
like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land
with your prostitution and wickedness.

They shed innocent blood—
the blood of their sons and daughters
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
so the land became polluted with blood.

I brought you to a fertile land
to eat its fruit and bounty,
but after you entered, you defiled My land;
you made My inheritance detestable.

The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

Do not make the land unclean where you live and where I reside; for I, Yahweh, reside among the Israelites.”

The earth is polluted by its inhabitants,
for they have transgressed teachings,
overstepped decrees,
and broken the everlasting covenant.

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.”

Get up and leave,
for this is not your place of rest,
because defilement brings destruction—
a grievous destruction!


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