Ezekiel 22:4

Easy To Read Version

“‘People of Jerusalem, you killed many people. You made filthy idols. You are guilty, and the time has come to punish you. Your end has come. Other nations will make fun of you. Those countries will laugh at you.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:16

And Manasseh killed many innocent people. He filled Jerusalem from one end to another with blood. And all those sins are in addition to the sins that caused Judah to sin. Manasseh caused Judah to do the things that the Lord said were wrong.’”

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will take the people of Israel out from my land that I gave them. And I will leave this temple {\cf2\super [130]} that I have made holy for my name. I will make this temple something that all the nations will speak evil about.

Psalm 79:4

The countries around us insulted us.\par The people around us laughed at us\par and made fun of us.\par

Jeremiah 18:16

So Judah’s country will become\par an empty desert.\par People will whistle and shake their heads\par every time they pass by.\par They will be shocked\par at how the country was destroyed.\par

Jeremiah 24:9

“I will punish those people. The punishment will shock all the people on earth. People will make fun of those people from Judah. People will tell jokes about them. People will curse them in all the places where I scatter them.

Jeremiah 44:8

Why do you people want to make me angry by making idols? Now you are living in Egypt. And now you are making me angry by offering sacrifices to the false gods of Egypt. You people will destroy yourselves. It will be your own fault. You will make yourselves something that people of other nations will speak evil of. And all the other nations on the earth will make fun of you.

Ezekiel 16:57

You did that before you were punished, before your neighbors started making fun of you. The daughters (towns) of Edom {\cf2\super [131]} and Philistia are making fun of you now.

Ezekiel 21:28

\{God said,\} “Son of man, {\cf2\super [164]} speak to the people for me. Say these things, ‘The Lord my Master says these things to the people of Ammon and their shameful \{god\}:

Ezekiel 22:2

“Son of man, {\cf2\super [169]} will you judge the city of murderers (Jerusalem)? Will you tell her about all the terrible things she has done?

Ezekiel 23:32

The Lord my Master says these things:

Ezekiel 23:7

And Oholah gave herself to all those men. All of them were hand-picked soldiers in the Assyrian army. And she wanted them all! She became filthy with their filthy idols.

Ezekiel 24:7

Jerusalem is like a pot with rust on it.\par Why? Because the blood from\par the murders is still there!\par She put the blood on the bare rock!\par She did not pour the blood on the ground\par and cover it with dirt. {\cf2\super [202]} \par

Ezekiel 24:8

I put her blood on the bare rock,\par so it would not be covered.\par I did this so people would get angry and\par punish her for killing innocent people.’\par

Ezekiel 36:15

“I won’t let those other nations insult you any more. You won’t be hurt by those people any more. You won’t take the children away from your people again.” The Lord my Master said those things.

Daniel 9:16

Lord, stop being angry at Jerusalem. Jerusalem is on your holy mountain. You do the right things, so stop being angry at Jerusalem. People all around us insult us and make fun of your people. This happens because we and our ancestors {\cf2\super [102]} sinned against you.

Leviticus 26:32

I will make your land empty. And your enemies that come to live there will be shocked at it.

Numbers 32:14

And now you are doing the same thing that your fathers did. You sinful people, do you want the Lord to be even more angry against his people?

Deuteronomy 28:37

In the countries where the Lord will send you, the people will be shocked at the bad things that happen to you. They will laugh at you and say bad things about you.

Deuteronomy 29:24

“All the other nations will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land? Why was he so angry?’

1 Thessalonians 2:16

Yes. They try to stop us from teaching the non-Jews. We teach the non-Jews so that the non-Jews can be saved. But those Jews are adding more and more sins to the sins they already have. The anger of God has fully come to them now.