Ezekiel 36:3

Modern English Version

therefore, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: For good reason they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side so that you might become a possession to the rest of the nations, and you have been taken up on the lips of talkers and are an infamy of the people.

Cross References

Psalm 35:25

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

Psalm 61:1

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

Psalm 69:12

Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I am the song of the drunkards.

Psalm 79:10

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

Psalm 79:4

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those who are around us.

Proverbs 1:12

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

Jeremiah 18:16

to make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes by shall be astonished and shake his head.

Jeremiah 2:15

The young lions roared at him and roared loudly, and they made his land a waste; his cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 24:9

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

Jeremiah 33:24

Have you not considered what this people have spoken, saying, “The two families which the Lord has chosen, He has cast them off”? Thus they have despised My people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

Jeremiah 51:34

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel. He has swallowed me up like a dragon; he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has cast me out.

Jeremiah 52:1

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds, and has increased mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

Lamentations 3:62

the lips of my enemies and their devices against me all the day.

Ezekiel 12:20

The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 13:10

It is surely because they have seduced My people, saying, “Peace,” when there was no peace. And when anyone builds up a wall, they daub it with whitewash.

Ezekiel 35:13

Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and have multiplied your words against Me. I have heard them.

Ezekiel 36:5

therefore thus says the Lord God: Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have seized My land into their possession with the joy of all their hearts and with a spiteful soul, to cast it out for a prey.

Daniel 9:16

O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I beseech You, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain, because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.

Leviticus 26:43

But the land shall be abandoned by them, and enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They shall make amends for their iniquity, because they despised My judgments and because they abhorred My statutes.

Obadiah 1:13

You should not have entered the gate of My people on the day of their calamity. You should not have gloated over the disaster of Judah on the day of his calamity; you should not have seized his wealth on the day of his calamity.

1 Corinthians 4:13

Being slandered, we encourage. We are made as the filth of the world, and are the refuse of all things to this day.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become a horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule among all nations where the Lord shall lead you.