Ezekiel 23:30
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.”
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“have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.”
King James Version · Public Domain“These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast played the harlot after the nations, and because thou art polluted with their idols.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“To do these things to thee, In thy going a-whoring after nations, Because thou hast been defiled with their idols,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 23:30 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 106:35but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
- Jeremiah 2:18Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
- Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 16:11Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.
- Jeremiah 22:8And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’
- Ezekiel 6:9Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
- Ezekiel 23:7She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.
- Ezekiel 23:12She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors dressed in splendor, horsemen riding on steeds, all desirable young men.
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