The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Ezekiel 16:59 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition For thus saith the Lord God; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yes, thus says the Lord God: I will even deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant; American Standard Version (1901) For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. Common English Bible The LORD God proclaims: I will do to you just as you have done, despising solemn pledges and breaking covenants. Catholic Public Domain Version For thus says the Lord God: "I will act toward you, just as you have despised the oath, so that you would make void the covenant. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For thus saith the Lord God: I will deal with thee as thou hast despised the oath, in breaking the covenant: |
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith the Lord:
Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him that cometh, according to the multitude of his idols;
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.
Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: