Ezekiel 8:12

New Century Version

Then he said to me, “Human, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the dark? Have you seen each man in the room of his own idol? They say, ‘The Lord doesn’t see us. The Lord has left the land.’ ”

Cross References

2 Kings 17:9

secretly sinning against the Lord their God. They built places to worship gods in all their cities, from the watchtower to the strong, walled city.

Psalm 10:11

The wicked think, “God has forgotten us. He doesn’t see what is happening.”

Psalm 14:1

Fools say to themselves, “There is no God.” Fools are evil and do terrible things; there is no one who does anything good.

Psalm 73:11

They say, “How can God know? What does God Most High know?”

Isaiah 29:15

How terrible it will be for those who try to hide things from the Lord and who do their work in darkness. They think no one will see them or know what they do.

Isaiah 47:10

You do evil things, but you feel safe and say, ‘No one sees what I do.’ Your wisdom and knowledge have fooled you. You say to yourself, ‘I am God, and no one is equal to me.’

Ezekiel 14:1

Some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat down in front of me.

Ezekiel 20:1

It was the seventh year of our captivity, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month. Some of the elders of Israel came to ask about the Lord and sat down in front of me.

Ezekiel 8:11

Standing in front of these carvings and idols were seventy of the elders of Israel and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan. Each man had his pan for burning incense in his hand, and a sweet-smelling cloud of incense was rising.

Ezekiel 8:13

He also said to me, “You will see even more hateful things that they are doing.”

Ezekiel 8:15

He said to me, “Do you see, human? You will see things even more hateful than these.”

Ezekiel 8:17

He said to me, “Do you see, human? Is it unimportant that the people of Judah are doing the hateful things they have done here? They have filled the land with violence and made me continually angry. Look, they are insulting me every way they can.

Ezekiel 9:9

Then he said to me, “The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is very great. The land is filled with people who murder, and the city is full of people who are not fair. The people say, ‘The Lord has left the land, and the Lord does not see.’

Zephaniah 1:12

At that time I, the Lord, will search Jerusalem with lamps. I will punish those who are satisfied with themselves, who think, ‘The Lord won’t help us or punish us.’

Ephesians 5:12

It is shameful even to talk about what those people do in secret.

Deuteronomy 27:15

“Anyone will be cursed who makes an idol or statue and secretly sets it up, because the Lord hates the idols people make.” Then all the people will say, “Amen!”