Ezekiel 13:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it?

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  • Deut 32:37 : 37 And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?
  • Judg 9:38 : 38 Then Zebul said to him, Now where is your loud talk when you said, Who is Abimelech that we are to be his servants? Is this not the people whom you were rating so low? Go out now, and make war on them.
  • Judg 10:14 : 14 Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.
  • 2 Kgs 3:13 : 13 But Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the prophets of your father and your mother. And the king of Israel said, No; for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them up into the hands of Moab.
  • Jer 2:28 : 28 But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.
  • Jer 29:31-32 : 31 Send to all those who have been taken away, saying, This is what the Lord has said about Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has been acting as a prophet to you, and I did not send him, and has made you put your faith in what is false; 32 For this cause the Lord has said, Truly I will send punishment on Shemaiah and on his seed; not a man of his family will have a place among this people, and he will not see the good which I am going to do to my people, says the Lord: because he has said words against the Lord.
  • Jer 37:19 : 19 Where now are your prophets who said to you, The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land?
  • Lam 2:14-15 : 14 The visions which your prophets have seen for you are false and foolish; they have not made clear to you your sin so that your fate might be changed: but they have seen for you false words, driving you away. 15 All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

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  • 89%

    10 Because, even because they have been guiding my people into error, saying, Peace; when there is no peace; and in the building of a division wall they put whitewash on it:

    11 Say to those who put whitewash on it, There will be an overflowing shower; and you, O ice-drops, will come raining down; and it will be broken in two by the storm-wind.

  • 89%

    13 For this reason, the Lord has said: I will have it broken in two by a storm-wind in my passion; and there will be an overflowing shower in my wrath, and you, O ice-drops, will come raining angrily down.

    14 So I will let the wall, which you were covering with whitewash, be broken down; I will have it levelled to the earth so that its base is uncovered: it will come down, and destruction will come on you with it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.

    15 So I will let loose my passion on the wall in full measure, and on those who put whitewash on it; and I will say to you, Where is the wall, and where are those who put whitewash on it?

    16 Even the prophets of Israel who say words to Jerusalem, who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace, says the Lord.

  • 13 This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.

  • 28 And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.

  • 11 For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.

  • 5 You have not gone up into the broken places or made up the wall for the children of Israel to take your place in the fight in the day of the Lord.

  • 12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

  • 5 Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out through it.

  • Isa 22:10-11
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    10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.

    11 And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.

  • 8 It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.

  • 11 A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide.

  • Ezek 8:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7 And he took me to the door of the open place; and looking, I saw a hole in the wall.

    8 And he said to me, Son of man, make a hole in the wall: and after making a hole in the wall I saw a door.

  • 11 For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.

  • Lev 14:41-42
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    72%

    41 And he will have the house rubbed all over inside, and the paste which is rubbed off will be put out into an unclean place outside the town:

    42 And they will take other stones and put them in place of those stones, and he will take other paste and put it on the walls of the house.

  • 31 And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

  • 12 They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

  • 10 Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.

  • 27 And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

  • 2 And Jesus said to him, Do you see these great buildings? there is not one stone here resting on another which will not be overturned.

  • Ezek 12:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 And in the morning the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    9 Son of man, has not Israel, the uncontrolled people, said to you, What are you doing?

  • 4 Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?

  • 45 And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town.

  • 10 The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars.

  • 21 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Jer 22:13-14
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    71%

    13 A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

    14 Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.

  • Ezek 13:7-8
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    7 Have you not seen a vision without substance and have you not falsely made use of secret arts, when you say, The Lord has said; though I have said nothing?

    8 So this is what the Lord has said: Because your words are without substance and your visions are false, see, I am against you, says the Lord.

  • 30 And as for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking together about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, saying to one another, Come now, give ear to the word which comes from the Lord.

  • 12 For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

  • 9 The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • 4 This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;

  • 16 Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?

  • 3 How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

  • 19 For this is what the Lord has said: I will make you a waste town, like the towns which are unpeopled; when I make the deep come upon you, covering you with great waters.

  • 24 Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no rain or thunderstorm has come in the day of wrath.

  • 17 And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.

  • 1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

  • 4 And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock

  • 9 You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

  • 17 And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.

  • 10 By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.