Ezekiel 13:12

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When the wall falls, people will ask you, ‘Where is the whitewash you applied?’

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  • Deut 32:37 : 37 And He will say: 'Where are their gods? The rock they sought refuge in?
  • Judg 9:38 : 38 Then Zebul said to him, "Where now is your boasting, you who said, 'Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?' Aren’t these the people you despised? Go out now and fight them!"
  • Judg 10:14 : 14 'Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble!'
  • 2 Kgs 3:13 : 13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What do we have to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother." But the king of Israel said to him, "No, because it is the LORD who has called these three kings together to hand them over to Moab."
  • Jer 2:28 : 28 But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise and save you in your time of trouble, if they can. For as many as your cities are your gods, Judah.
  • Jer 29:31-32 : 31 Send this message to all the exiles: This is what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite—Shemaiah has prophesied to you though I did not send him, and he has made you trust in a lie. 32 Therefore, this is what the LORD says: I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will not have anyone dwelling among this people, nor will he see the good that I will do for my people, declares the LORD, because he has spoken rebellion against the LORD.
  • Jer 37:19 : 19 Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, 'The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land'?
  • Lam 2:14-15 : 14 The visions of your prophets were false and empty; they did not expose your iniquity to restore your fortunes. Instead, they saw false and misleading oracles for you. 15 All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, 'Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?'

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  • 89%

    10 Because they have misled my people by saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because when a flimsy wall is built, they plaster it over with whitewash,

    11 say to those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be a flooding rain, hailstones will fall, and a stormy wind will break it.

  • 89%

    13 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: In my wrath, I will unleash a stormy wind. In my anger, there will be flooding rain, and hailstones in fury will bring about destruction.

    14 I will break down the wall that you plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. It will collapse, and you will perish within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

    15 So I will pour out my wrath on the wall and on those who plaster it with whitewash. I will tell you, ‘The wall is gone, and so are those who plastered it,’

    16 along with the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem and claimed visions of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Lord GOD.

  • 13 'this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.'

  • 28 Her prophets plaster false visions for them, prophesying lies and saying, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.

  • 11 For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the wooden beam will answer it.

  • 5 You have not gone up to the breaches or repaired the wall for the house of Israel, so that it can stand firm in battle on the day of the LORD.

  • 12 He will demolish the high fortress of your walls, bring it down to the ground, to the very dust.

  • 5 In their sight, dig through the wall and carry your belongings through it.

  • Isa 22:10-11
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    74%

    10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore down houses to fortify the wall.

    11 You made a reservoir between the walls for the water of the old pool, but you did not look to its Maker, nor did you regard the One who formed it long ago.

  • 8 The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not turn back his hand from destroying. He caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.

  • 11 The day for rebuilding your walls will come; on that day, the boundary will be extended far and wide.

  • Ezek 8:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7 Then He brought me to the entrance of the courtyard, and I looked, and behold, there was a hole in the wall.

    8 He said to me, 'Son of man, dig through the wall now.' So I dug through the wall, and behold, there was an entrance.

  • 11 For the LORD has given the command: The great house will be shattered into pieces, and the small house into bits.

  • Lev 14:41-42
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    72%

    41 He shall have the house scraped of all its plaster, and the scraped material is to be dumped outside the city in an unclean place.

    42 Then they shall take other stones to replace those removed and reapply the plaster over the house.

  • 31 Thorns had grown all over it, the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

  • 12 'They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. They will throw your stones, timber, and rubble into the sea.'

  • 10 Go up among her rows and destroy them, but do not completely finish them off. Remove her branches, for they do not belong to the Lord.

  • 27 The rain came down, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and struck against that house, and it collapsed with a great crash.

  • 2 Jesus replied, 'Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.'

  • Ezek 12:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 Then in the morning, the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    9 Son of man, has not the house of Israel, that rebellious house, asked you, ‘What are you doing?’

  • 4 Is this a time for you to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?

  • 45 The house must be demolished, with all its stones, timbers, and plaster taken outside the city to an unclean place.

  • 10 But the LORD has strengthened Rezin’s adversaries against them and has stirred up their enemies.

  • 21 The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Jer 22:13-14
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    71%

    13 Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice, making his neighbor work for nothing and not paying him for his labor.

    14 He says, 'I will build for myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' cutting out large windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion.

  • Ezek 13:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 Haven’t you seen a false vision and spoken a lying divination when you say, ‘Thus says the LORD,’ but I have not spoken?

    8 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.

  • 30 As for you, son of man, the people of your nation are talking about you near the walls and at the doorways of their houses. They are saying to one another, each to their brother, 'Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD.'

  • 12 Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.

  • 9 "This is what the LORD says: 'In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • 4 The LORD said, 'This is what you are to say to him: Behold, what I have built I am tearing down, and what I have planted I am uprooting—the entire land.'

  • 16 'What right do you have here, and who gave you the right to be here, that you carve out a tomb for yourself here, cutting out a burial site on the height and chiseling your resting place in the rock?'

  • 3 Truly He is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

  • 19 For this is what the Lord GOD says: 'When I make you a desolate city, like cities that are no longer inhabited, and when I bring the deep over you and the mighty waters cover you,'

  • 24 Son of man, say to the land: You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of wrath.

  • 17 I struck you—all the work of your hands— with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to me—this is the declaration of the LORD.

  • 1 This is an oracle concerning the Valley of Vision: What is wrong with you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops?

  • 4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape away her soil and leave her as bare rock.

  • 9 You expected much, but it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew it away. Why?” declares the LORD of Hosts. “Because My house remains in ruins, while each of you is busy with your own house.

  • 17 I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.

  • 10 Confuse, O Lord, and divide their speech, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.