Ezekiel 20:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ When you offer your gifts and make your children pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be consulted by you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ And when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, do you not debase and defile yourselves with all your idols to this day? And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you!

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ and when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, do ye pollute yourselves with all your idols unto this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you;

Common English Bible

³¹ When you offer up your gifts and make your children pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Should I let you seek me out, house of Israel? This is what the LORD God says: As surely as I live, I won’t let you seek me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ And you are being defiled by all of your idols, even to this day, by the oblation of your gifts, when you lead your sons through the fire. And should I respond to you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not answer you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ And you defile yourselves with all your idols unto this day, in the offering of your gifts, when you make your children pass through the fire. And shall I answer you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord God, I will not answer you.

Ezekiel 20:31 Cross References

Job 27:10

Will they take delight in the Almighty? Will they call upon God at all times?

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off, when God takes away their lives?

Psalm 66:18

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Proverbs 28:9

When one will not listen to the law, even one’s prayers are an abomination.

Isaiah 1:15

When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 57:5

you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; you who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

Jeremiah 14:12

Although they fast, I do not hear their cry, and although they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I do not accept them, but by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence I consume them.

Jeremiah 19:5

and gone on building the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it enter my mind,

Jeremiah 7:31

And they go on building the high place of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire—which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.

Ezekiel 16:20

You took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. As if your prostitutions were not enough!

Ezekiel 16:36

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

Ezekiel 20:26

I defiled them through their very gifts, in their offering up all their firstborn, in order that I might horrify them, so that they might know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:3

Mortal, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Why are you coming? To consult me? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be consulted by you.

Ezekiel 23:37

For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; with their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.

Ezekiel 33:30

As for you, mortal, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses say to one another, each to a neighbor, “Come and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord.”

Amos 8:12

They shall wander from sea to sea and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.

Zechariah 7:13

Just as, when I called, they would not hear, so, when they called, I would not hear, says the Lord of hosts,