Ezekiel 8:12

Modern English Version

Then He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us. The Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”

Cross References

2 Kings 17:9

The Israelites ascribed things to the Lord their God that were not so, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities from the watchtower to the fortified city.

Psalm 10:11

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will never see it.”

Psalm 14:1

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is no one who does good.

Psalm 73:11

They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

Isaiah 29:15

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from the Lord and whose works are done in the dark, and they say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

Isaiah 47:10

For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, “No one sees me”; your wisdom and your knowledge have perverted you; and you have said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.”

Ezekiel 14:1

Then some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me.

Ezekiel 20:1

In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord and sat before me.

Ezekiel 8:11

There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.

Ezekiel 8:13

He also said to me, “Yet again you shall see greater abominations that they do.”

Ezekiel 8:15

Then He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Yet again you shall see greater abominations than these.”

Ezekiel 8:17

Then He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence and have continually provoked Me to anger. And behold, they put the branch to their nose.

Ezekiel 9:9

Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city is full of perverseness, for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’

Zephaniah 1:12

At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “The Lord will not do good, nor will He do evil.”

Ephesians 5:12

For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

Deuteronomy 27:15

“Cursed is the man who makes any graven or molded image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place.” And all the people shall answer and say, “Amen.”