Thematic Bible: Wickedness of, the cause of its calamities

And they gave up the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and became worshippers of pillars of wood and of the images; and because of this sin of theirs, wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem.

Verse Concepts

Forsaking God's Things

For this cause, says the Lord, the God of Israel, I will send such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of all to whom the news comes will be burning. And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face. And I will put away from me the rest of my heritage, and give them up into the hands of their haters, who will take their property and their goods for themselves; read more.
Because they have done evil in my eyes, moving me to wrath, from the day when their fathers came out of Egypt till this day.

Great is the sin of Jerusalem; for this cause she has become an unclean thing: all those who gave her honour are looking down on her, because they have seen her shame: now truly, breathing out grief, she is turned back.

Verse Concepts

NakednessSin, Effects OfTurning Round

Losing HonourGod's People SinningCatastrophic Events

This is what the Lord has said: This is Jerusalem: I have put her among the nations, and countries are round her on every side; 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. For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have been more uncontrolled than the nations round about you, and have not been guided by my rules or kept my orders, but have kept the orders of the nations round about you; read more.
For this cause the Lord has said: See, I, even I, am against you; and I will be judging among you before the eyes of the nations.