You have statues covered with silver and gold. Those false gods have made you dirty (sinful). But you will stop serving those false gods. You will throw away those gods like waste and dirty rags. {\cf2\super [280]}
Ezekiel 11:18 - Easy To Read Version And when my people come back, they will destroy all the terrible, filthy idols that are here now. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And when they return there, they shall take away from it all traces of its detestable things and all its abominations (sex impurities and heathen religious practices). American Standard Version (1901) And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. Common English Bible They will enter the land, and they will remove from it all its disgusting and detestable things. Catholic Public Domain Version And they shall go to that place, and they shall remove all the offenses and all its abominations from that place. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they shall go in thither and shall take away all the scandals and all the abominations thereof from thence. |
You have statues covered with silver and gold. Those false gods have made you dirty (sinful). But you will stop serving those false gods. You will throw away those gods like waste and dirty rags. {\cf2\super [280]}
I will pay the people of Judah back for the bad things they did—I will punish them two times for every sin. I will do this because they have made my land ‘dirty.’ They made my land ‘dirty’ with their terrible idols. I hate those idols. But they have filled my country with their idols.”
\{I mean,\} each animal had four faces, four wings, and something that looked like human arms under their wings.
Why? So those prophets will stop leading my people away from me. And so my people will stop becoming filthy with their sins. Then they will be my special people. And I will be their God.’” The Lord my Master said those things.
And they won’t continue to make themselves filthy with their idols {\cf2\super [296]} and horrible statues or with any of their other crimes. But I will save them from all the places where they have sinned. And I will wash them and make them pure. And they will be my people, and I will be their God.
The Lord my Master says, “\{Jerusalem,\} I promise by my life \{that I will punish you\}! I promise that I will punish you! Why? Because you did terrible things to my Holy Place. You did horrible things that made it dirty! I will punish you! I won’t show any mercy. I will not feel sorry for you!
“Those people used their beautiful jewelry and made an idol. They were proud of that statue. They made their terrible statues. They made those filthy things. So I (God) will throw them away like a dirty rag.
“Ephraim, {\cf2\super [150]} I will have nothing more\par to do with idols. {\cf2\super [151]} \par I am the One who answers your prayers.\par I am the One who watches over you. {\cf2\super [152]} \par I am like a fir tree that is always green.\par Your fruit comes from me.”\par
A wise person understands these things.\par A smart person should learn these things.\par The Lord’s ways are right.\par Good people will live by them.\par Sinners will die by them. {\cf2\super [153]} \par
That grace teaches us not to live against God and not to do the bad things the world wants to do. That grace teaches us to live on earth now in a wise and right way—a way that shows that we serve God.