Ezekiel 20:35

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“And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, where I will enter into judgment with you face to face.”

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BSBPD

“And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, where I will enter into judgment with you face to face.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And I have brought you in unto the wilderness of the peoples, And have been judged with you there face to face.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 20:35 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Jeremiah 2:9Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.
  2. Jeremiah 2:35you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
  3. Jeremiah 25:31The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth because the LORD brings a charge against the nations. He brings judgment on all mankind and puts the wicked to the sword,’” declares the LORD.
  4. Jeremiah 31:2This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”
  5. Ezekiel 17:20I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.
  6. Ezekiel 19:13Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
  7. Ezekiel 20:36Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.
  8. Ezekiel 38:8After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.
  9. Ezekiel 38:22I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
  10. Hosea 2:14“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.
  11. Hosea 2:16In that day,” declares the LORD, “you will call Me ‘my Husband,’ and no longer call Me ‘my Master.’
  12. Hosea 4:1Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!
  13. Micah 4:10Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!
  14. Micah 6:1Hear now what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
  15. Micah 7:13Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
  16. Revelation 12:14But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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