Ezekiel 13:12
When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you,“Where is the whitewash you coated it with?”
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- Deut 32:37 : 37 He will say,“Where are their gods, the rock in whom they sought security,
- Judg 9:38 : 38 Zebul said to him,“Where now are your bragging words,‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the men you insulted? Go out now and fight them!”
- Judg 10:14 : 14 Go and cry for help to the gods you have chosen! Let them deliver you from trouble!”
- 2 Kgs 3:13 : 13 Elisha said to the king of Israel,“Why are you here? Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him,“No, for the LORD is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”
- Jer 2:28 : 28 But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them save you when you are in trouble. The sad fact is that you have as many gods as you have towns, Judah.
- Jer 29:31-32 : 31 “Send a message to all the exiles in Babylon. Tell them,‘The LORD has spoken about Shemaiah the Nehelamite.“Shemaiah has spoken to you as a prophet even though I did not send him. He is making you trust in a lie. 32 Because he has done this,” the LORD says,“I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his whole family. There will not be any of them left to experience the good things that I will do for my people. I, the LORD, affirm it! For he counseled rebellion against the LORD.”’”
- Jer 37:19 : 19 Where now are the prophets who prophesied to you that the king of Babylon would not attack you or this land?
- Lam 2:14-15 : 14 נ(Nun) Your prophets saw visions for you that were worthless whitewash. They failed to expose your sin so as to restore your fortunes. They saw oracles for you that were worthless lies. 15 ס(Samek) All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem.“Ha! Is this the city they called‘The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!’?”
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- Ezek 13:10-112 verses89%
10 “‘This is because they have led my people astray saying,“All is well,” when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, they coat it with whitewash.
11 Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones will fall and a violent wind will break out.
- Ezek 13:13-164 verses89%
13 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: In my rage I will make a violent wind break out. In my anger there will be a deluge of rain and hailstones in destructive fury.
14 I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it, and you will know that I am the LORD.
15 I will vent my rage against the wall, and against those who coated it with whitewash. Then I will say to you,“The wall is no more and those who whitewashed it are no more–
16 those prophets of Israel who would prophesy about Jerusalem and would see visions of peace for it, when there was no peace,” declares the Sovereign LORD.’
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13 So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.
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28 Her prophets coat their messages with whitewash. They see false visions and announce lying omens for them, saying,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.
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11 For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back.
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5 You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the LORD.
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12 The fortified city(along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.
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5 While they are watching, dig a hole in the wall and carry your belongings out through it.
- Isa 22:10-112 verses74%
10 You counted the houses in Jerusalem, and demolished houses so you could have material to reinforce the wall.
11 You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool– but you did not trust in the one who made it; you did not depend on the one who formed it long ago!
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8 ח(Khet) The LORD was determined to tear down Daughter Zion’s wall. He prepared to knock it down; he did not withdraw his hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and fortified walls lament; together they mourned their ruin.
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11 It will be a day for rebuilding your walls; in that day your boundary will be extended.
- Ezek 8:7-82 verses72%
7 He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall.
8 He said to me,“Son of man, dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway.
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11 Indeed, look! The LORD is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.
- Lev 14:41-422 verses72%
41 Then they shall scrape the house all around on the inside, and the plaster which they have scraped off must be dumped outside the city into an unclean place.
42 They are then to take other stones and replace those stones, and he is to take other plaster and replaster the house.
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31 I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.
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12 They will steal your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will tear down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. Your stones, your trees, and your soil he will throw into the water.
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10 The LORD commanded the enemy,“March through the vineyards of Israel and Judah and ruin them. But do not destroy them completely. Strip off their branches for these people do not belong to the LORD.
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27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed– it was utterly destroyed!”
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2 Jesus said to him,“Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”
- Ezek 12:8-92 verses72%
8 The LORD’s message came to me in the morning:
9 “Son of man, has not the house of Israel, that rebellious house, said to you,‘What are you doing?’
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4 “Is it right for you to live in richly paneled houses while my temple is in ruins?
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45 He must tear down the house, its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it outside the city to an unclean place.
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10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with chiseled stone; the sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.”
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21 The LORD’s message came to me:
- Jer 22:13-142 verses71%
13 Judgment on Jehoiakim“‘Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.
14 He says,“I will build myself a large palace with spacious upper rooms.” He cuts windows in its walls, panels it with cedar, and paints its rooms red.
- Ezek 13:7-82 verses71%
7 Have you not seen a false vision and announced a lying omen when you say,“the LORD declares,” although I myself never spoke?
8 “‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you have spoken false words and forecast delusion, look, I am against you, declares the Sovereign LORD.
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30 “But as for you, son of man, your people(who are talking about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses) say to one another,‘Come hear the word that comes from the LORD.’
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12 Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a hill overgrown with brush!
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9 “I, the LORD, say:‘This shows how I will ruin the highly exalted position in which Judah and Jerusalem take pride.
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4 The LORD told Jeremiah,“Tell Baruch,‘The LORD says,“I am about to tear down what I have built and to uproot what I have planted. I will do this throughout the whole earth.
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16 ‘What right do you have to be here? What relatives do you have buried here? Why do you chisel out a tomb for yourself here? He chisels out his burial site in an elevated place, he carves out his tomb on a cliff.
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3 How long will you threaten a man? All of you are murderers, as dangerous as a leaning wall or an unstable fence.
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19 “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging waters overwhelm you,
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24 “Son of man, say to her:‘You are a land that receives no rain or showers in the day of my anger.’
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17 I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,’ says the LORD.
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1 The Lord Will Judge Jerusalem This is an oracle about the Valley of Vision: What is the reason that all of you go up to the rooftops?
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4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.
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9 ‘You expected a large harvest, but instead there was little. And when you would bring it home, I would blow it right away. Why?’ asks the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.‘Because my temple remains in ruins, thanks to each of you favoring his own house!
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17 I will make justice the measuring line, fairness the plumb line; hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge, the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place.
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10 Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.