Ezekiel 36:3

English Standard Version 2016

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,

Cross References

Jeremiah 18:16

making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.

1 Corinthians 4:13

when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.

Daniel 9:16

“O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us.

Ezekiel 13:10

Precisely because they have misled my people, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets smear it with whitewash,

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.

Jeremiah 52:1

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Jeremiah 51:34

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out.

Jeremiah 33:24

“Have you not observed that these people are saying, ‘The Lord has rejected the two clans that he chose’? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

Proverbs 1:12

like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;

Psalm 79:10

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!

Psalm 69:12

I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.

Psalm 61:1

Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer;

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, our heart’s desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Deuteronomy 28:37

And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.

Leviticus 26:43

But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.

Jeremiah 2:15

The lions have roared against him; they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.

Lamentations 3:62

The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long.

Ezekiel 12:20

And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 35:13

And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it.

Ezekiel 36:5

therefore thus says the Lord God: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.

Obadiah 1:13

Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; do not gloat over his disaster in the day of his calamity; do not loot his wealth in the day of his calamity.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.