Ezekiel 35:13

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“You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!”

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BSBPD

“You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And ye magnify yourselves against Me with your mouth, And have made abundant against Me your words, I--I have heard.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 35:13 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 16:12“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”
  2. Numbers 12:2“Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.
  3. Numbers 14:27“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
  4. 1 Samuel 2:3Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
  5. 2 Kings 19:28Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
  6. 2 Chronicles 32:15So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand!”
  7. 2 Chronicles 32:19They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.
  8. Job 34:37For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”
  9. Job 35:16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
  10. Psalms 73:8They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
  11. Psalms 74:18Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
  12. Psalms 94:9He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?
  13. Ecclesiastes 10:14Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
  14. Isaiah 10:13For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
  15. Isaiah 36:20Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
  16. Isaiah 37:10“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
  17. Isaiah 37:23Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
  18. Isaiah 37:27Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
  19. Isaiah 37:29Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
  20. Jeremiah 29:23For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”
  21. Ezekiel 35:12Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’
  22. Daniel 11:36Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.
  23. Malachi 3:13“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
  24. 2 Peter 2:18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

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