Ezekiel 14:3

Catholic Public Domain Version

"Son of man, these men have placed their uncleanness in their hearts, and they have stationed the scandal of their iniquities before their face. So why should I respond when they inquire of me?

Cross References

2 Kings 3:13

Then Elisha said to the king of Israel: "What is there between you and me? Go to the prophets of your father and your mother." And the king of Israel said to him, "Why has the Lord gathered these three kings, so that he might deliver them into the hands of Moab?"

Psalm 101:3

Do not turn your face away from me. In whatever day that I am in trouble, incline your ear to me. In whatever day that I will call upon you, heed me quickly.

Proverbs 15:29

The Lord is distant from the impious. And he will heed the prayers of the just.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifices of the impious are abominable to the Lord. The vows of the just are appeasing.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifices of the impious are abominable, because they are offered out of wickedness.

Proverbs 28:9

Whoever turns away his ears from listening to the law: his prayer will be detestable.

Isaiah 1:15

And so, when you extend your hands, I will avert my eyes from you. And when you multiply your prayers, I will not heed you. For your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 33:15

The one who walks in justice and speaks the truth, who casts out avarice with oppression and shakes all bribes from his hands, who blocks his ears so that he may not listen to blood, and closes his eyes so that he may not see evil.

Jeremiah 11:11

For this reason, thus says the Lord: Behold, I will lead evils over them, from which they will not be able to escape. And they will cry out to me, and I will not heed them.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it?

Jeremiah 21:2

"Question the Lord on our behalf, for Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, is fighting against us. Perhaps it may be that the Lord will act toward us according to all his wonders, and he may withdraw from us."

Ezekiel 11:21

But as for those whose heart walks after their offenses and abominations, I will set their own way upon their head, says the Lord God."

Ezekiel 14:2

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Ezekiel 14:4

Because of this, speak to them, and you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: The man, the man of the house of Israel, who places his uncleanness in his heart, and who stations the scandal of his iniquities before his face, and who approaches a prophet, so as to inquire of me through him: I, the Lord, will respond to him in accord with the multitude of his uncleannesses,

Ezekiel 14:7

For the man, the man of the house of Israel, and the new arrival among the converts who may be in Israel, if he is alienated from me, and he sets his idols in his heart, and he stations the scandal of his iniquity before his face, and he approaches the prophet, so that he may inquire of me through him: I, the Lord, will respond to him through myself.

Ezekiel 20:16

For they cast aside my judgments, and they did not walk in my precepts, and they violated my Sabbaths. For their heart went after idols.

Ezekiel 20:3

"Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Have you arrived in order to inquire of me? As I live, I will not answer you, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 20:31

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.

Ezekiel 3:20

Moreover, if the just man turns aside from his justice and commits iniquity, I will place a stumbling block before him. He shall die, because you have not announced to him. He shall die in his sin, and his justices that he did shall not be remembered. Yet truly, I will attribute his blood to your hand.

Ezekiel 33:30

And as for you, O son of man: the sons of your people speak about you beside the walls and in the doorways of houses. And they speak to one another, each man to his neighbor, saying: 'Come, and let us hear what may be the word going forth from the Lord.'

Ezekiel 36:25

And I will pour clean water over you, and you shall be cleansed from all your filth, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.

Ezekiel 44:12

But because they ministered to them in the sight their idols, and they became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, for this reason, I have lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord God, and they will bear their iniquity.

Ezekiel 6:9

And your liberated shall remember me among the nations to which they were led away as captives. For I have crushed their heart, which fornicated and withdrew from me, and their eyes, which fornicated after their idols. And they will be displeased with themselves over the evils that they have done by all their abominations.

Ezekiel 7:19

Their silver will be thrown away, and their gold will be like a dunghill. Their silver and their gold will have no power to free them in the day of the fury of the Lord. They will not satisfy their soul, and their bellies will not be filled, because of the scandal of their iniquity.

Hosea 4:5

And you will be ruined on this day, and now the prophet will be ruined with you. In the night, I have made your mother to be silent.

Zephaniah 1:3

I will gather man and cattle; I will gather the flying things of the air and the fish of the sea. And the impious will be a catastrophe. And I will disperse men before the face of the earth, says the Lord.

Zechariah 7:13

And it happened, just as he had spoken, and they did not pay attention. So then, they shall cry out, and I will not heed, says the Lord of hosts.

Luke 20:8

And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."

Ephesians 5:5

For know and understand this: no one who is a fornicator, or lustful, or rapacious (for these are a kind of service to idols) holds an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

1 Peter 2:8

and a stone of offense, and a rock of scandal, to those who are offended by the Word; neither do they believe, though they also have been built upon him.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you. For you have, in that place, those who hold to the doctrine of Balaam, who instructed Balak to cast a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat and to commit fornication.

1 Samuel 28:6

And he consulted the Lord. But he did not respond to him, neither by dreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets.