Study Desk

Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not disheartened them, and you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their wicked way and save their lives;

If I send wild animals through the land to ravage it, so that it is made desolate, and no one may pass through because of the animals;

And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, says the Lord God .

Your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of my splendor that I had bestowed on you, says the Lord God .

But you trusted in your beauty, and played the whore because of your fame, and lavished your whorings on any passer-by.

You played the whore with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied.

building your platform at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square! Yet you were not like a whore, because you scorned payment.

Thus says the Lord God , Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whoring with your lovers, and because of all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,

Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things; therefore, I have returned your deeds upon your head, says the Lord God . Have you not committed lewdness beyond all your abominations?

Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have brought about for your sisters a more favorable judgment; because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

in order that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I forgive you all that you have done, says the Lord God .

Because he despised the oath and broke the covenant, because he gave his hand and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.

As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, he dies for his iniquity.

Because they considered and turned away from all the transgressions that they had committed, they shall surely live; they shall not die.

because they rejected my ordinances and did not observe my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their ancestors' idols.

Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north;

The Drawn Sword of God The word of the Lord came to me: Mortal, set your face toward Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries; prophesy against the land of Israel and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the Lord : I am coming against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked. Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north; and all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again. Moan therefore, mortal; moan with breaking heart and bitter grief before their eyes.

And when they say to you, "Why do you moan?" you shall say, "Because of the news that has come. Every heart will melt and all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will turn to water. See, it comes and it will be fulfilled," says the Lord God .

Therefore thus says the Lord God : Because you have brought your guilt to remembrance, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appear—because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in hand.