Ezekiel 16:50

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They were haughty and practiced abominable deeds before me. Therefore when I saw it I removed them.

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  • Gen 13:13 : 13 (Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the LORD.)
  • Gen 18:20 : 20 So the LORD said,“The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant
  • Gen 19:5 : 5 They shouted to Lot,“Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can take carnal knowledge of them!”
  • Gen 19:24 : 24 Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the LORD.
  • Lev 18:22 : 22 You must not have sexual relations with a male as one has sexual relations with a woman; it is a detestable act.
  • Deut 23:17 : 17 Purity in Cultic Personnel There must never be a sacred prostitute among the young women of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute among the young men of Israel.
  • Deut 29:23 : 23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger.
  • 2 Kgs 23:7 : 7 He tore down the quarters of the male cultic prostitutes in the LORD’s temple, where women were weaving shrines for Asherah.
  • Job 18:15 : 15 Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.
  • Prov 16:18 : 18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
  • Prov 18:12 : 12 Before destruction the heart of a person is proud, but humility comes before honor.
  • Isa 13:19 : 19 Babylon, the most admired of kingdoms, the Chaldeans’ source of honor and pride, will be destroyed by God just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.
  • Jer 20:16 : 16 May that man be like the cities that the LORD destroyed without showing any mercy. May he hear a cry of distress in the morning and a battle cry at noon.
  • Jer 49:18 : 18 Edom will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns that were around them. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it,” says the LORD.
  • Jer 50:40 : 40 I will destroy Babylonia just like I did Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it,” says the LORD.
  • Lam 4:6 : 6 ו(Vav) The punishment of my people exceeded that of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment with no one to help her.
  • Amos 4:11 : 11 “I overthrew some of you the way God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the flames. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!
  • Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore, as surely as I live,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel,“be certain that Moab will become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah. They will be overrun by weeds, filled with salt pits, and permanently desolate. Those of my people who are left will plunder their belongings; those who are left in Judah will take possession of their land.”
  • Rom 1:26-27 : 26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, 27 and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
  • 2 Pet 2:6 : 6 and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly,
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
  • Rev 18:9 : 9 Then the kings of the earth who committed immoral acts with her and lived in sensual luxury with her will weep and wail for her when they see the smoke from the fire that burns her up.

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    51Samaria has not committed half the sins you have; you have done more abominable deeds than they did. You have made your sisters appear righteous with all the abominable things you have done.

    52So now, bear your disgrace, because you have given your sisters reason to justify their behavior. Because the sins you have committed were more abominable than those of your sisters; they have become more righteous than you. So now, be ashamed and bear the disgrace of making your sisters appear righteous.

  • Ezek 16:47-49
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    47Have you not copied their behavior and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

    48As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never behaved as wickedly as you and your daughters have behaved.

    49“‘See here– this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they did not help the poor and needy.

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    56In your days of majesty, was not Sodom your sister a byword in your mouth,

    57before your evil was exposed? Now you have become an object of scorn to the daughters of Aram and all those around her and to the daughters of the Philistines– those all around you who despise you.

    58You must bear your punishment for your obscene conduct and your abominable practices, declares the LORD.

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    30I will do these things to you because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

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    18“When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.

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    16In this way I will pass sentence on the people of Jerusalem and Judah because of all their wickedness. For they rejected me and offered sacrifices to other gods, worshiping what they made with their own hands.”

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    8“Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I– even I– am against you, and I will execute judgment among you while the nations watch.

    9I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices.

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    46“For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Bring up an army against them and subject them to terror and plunder.

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    21But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, says the Sovereign LORD.”

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    13I saw that she was defiled; both of them followed the same path.

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    24According to their uncleanness and rebellion I have dealt with them, and I hid my face from them.

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    17“Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their behavior and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her monthly period.

    18So I poured my anger on them because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it.

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    20They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride, and with it they made their abominable images– their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them.

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    30I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.

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    39I will give you into their hands and they will destroy your chambers and tear down your pavilions. They will strip you of your clothing and take your beautiful jewelry and leave you naked and bare.

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    36This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness was uncovered in your prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children you have given to them,

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    25At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced your beauty when you spread your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.

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    11One commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister– his father’s daughter– within you.

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    10I have seen a disgusting thing in the house of Israel: there Ephraim commits prostitution with other gods, and Israel defiles itself.