Ezekiel 20:36
As I took up the cause with your fathers in the waste land of the land of Egypt, so will I take up the cause with you says the Lord.
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Ezekiel 20:36
As I took up the cause with your fathers in the waste land of the land of Egypt, so will I take up the cause with you says the Lord.
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Ezekiel 20:32
And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;
Ezekiel 20:33
By my life, says the Lord, truly, with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with burning wrath let loose, I will be King over you:
Ezekiel 20:34
And I will take you out from the peoples and get you together out of the countries where you are wandering, with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with burning wrath let loose:
Ezekiel 20:35
And I will take you into the waste land of the peoples, and there I will take up the cause with you face to face.
Ezekiel 20:36
As I took up the cause with your fathers in the waste land of the land of Egypt, so will I take up the cause with you says the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:37
And I will make you go under the rod and will make you small in number:
Ezekiel 20:38
Clearing out from among you all those who are uncontrolled and who are sinning against me; I will take them out of the land where they are living, but they will not come into the land of Israel: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:40
For in my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, says the Lord, there all the children of Israel, all of them, will be my servants in the land; there I will take pleasure in them, and there I will be worshipped with your offerings and the first-fruits of the things you give, and with all your holy things.
Ezekiel 20:41
I will take pleasure in you as in a sweet smell, when I take you out from the peoples and get you together from the countries where you have been sent in flight; and I will make myself holy in you before the eyes of the nations.
Ezekiel 20:42
And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when I take you into the land of Israel, into the country which I made an oath to give to your fathers.
Ezekiel 20:43
And there, at the memory of your ways and of all the things you did to make yourselves unclean, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of all the evil things you have done.
Ezekiel 20:44
And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when I take you in hand for the honour of my name, and not for your evil ways or your unclean doings, O children of Israel, says the Lord.
Zechariah 12:10
And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
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Hosea 2:14
For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.
Ezekiel 17:20
My net will be stretched out over him, and he will be taken in my cords, and I will send him to Babylon, and there I will be his judge for the wrong which he has done against me.
Jeremiah 2:9
For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.
Jeremiah 2:35
And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.
Ezekiel 38:22
And I will take up my cause against him with disease and with blood; and I will send down on him and on his forces and on the peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great ice-drops, fire, and burning.
Micah 6:2
Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
Isaiah 43:26
Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.
Isaiah 66:16
For with fire and sword will the Lord come, judging all the earth, and his sword will be on all flesh: and great numbers will be put to death by him.
Jeremiah 2:29
Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:31
O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?
Jeremiah 25:31
A noise will come, even to the end of the earth; for the Lord has a cause against the nations, he will give his decision against all flesh; as for the evil-doers, he will give them to the sword, says the Lord.
Hosea 2:2
Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;
Hosea 2:3
For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.
Joel 3:2
I will get together all the nations, and make them come down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and there I will take up with them the cause of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they have sent wandering among the nations, and of my land which has been parted by them.
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Ezekiel 20:1
Now it came about in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the responsible men of Israel came to get directions from the Lord and were seated before me.
Ezekiel 20:2
Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 20:3
Son of man, say to the responsible men of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: Have you come to get directions from me? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no directions from me.
Ezekiel 20:4
Will you be their judge, O son of man, will you be their judge? make clear to them the disgusting ways of their fathers,
Ezekiel 14:1
Then certain of the responsible men of Israel came to me and took their seats before me.
Ezekiel 14:2
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 14:3
Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?
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Ezekiel 20:5
And say to them, This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I took Israel for myself, when I made an oath to the seed of the family of Jacob, and I gave them knowledge of myself in the land of Egypt, saying to them with an oath, I am the Lord your God;
Ezekiel 20:6
In that day I gave my oath to take them out of the land of Egypt into a land which I had been searching out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands:
Ezekiel 20:7
And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.
Ezekiel 20:8
But they would not be controlled by me, and did not give ear to me; they did not put away the disgusting things to which their eyes were turned, or give up the images of Egypt: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:9
And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean before the eyes of the nations among whom they were, and before whose eyes I gave them knowledge of myself, by taking them out of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:13
But the children of Israel would not be controlled by me in the waste land: they were not guided by my rules, and they were turned away from my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said that I would let loose my passion on them in the waste land, and put an end to them.
Ezekiel 20:20
And keep my Sabbaths holy; and they will be a sign between me and you so that it may be clear to you that I am the Lord your God.
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Numbers 14:15
Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,
Numbers 14:16
Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.
Numbers 14:21
But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;
Numbers 14:22
Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;
Numbers 14:23
They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.
Numbers 14:29
Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,
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Deuteronomy 32:10
He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.
Deuteronomy 8:15
Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;
Jeremiah 2:2
Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.
Revelation 12:14
And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, so that she might go in flight into the waste land, to her place, where she is given food for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the snake.
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Ezekiel 19:13
And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country.
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Ezekiel 20:27
For this cause, son of man, say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: In this your fathers have further put shame on my name by doing wrong against me.
Ezekiel 20:28
For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.
Ezekiel 20:29
Then I said to them, What is this high place where you go to no purpose? And it is named Bamah to this day.
Ezekiel 20:30
For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: Are you making yourselves unclean as your fathers did? are you being untrue to me by going after their disgusting works?
Ezekiel 20:31
And when you give your offerings, causing your sons to go through the fire, you make yourselves unclean with all your images to this day; and will you come to me for directions, O children of Israel? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no direction from me.
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Ezekiel 20:49
Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?
Ezekiel 20:45
Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 20:46
Son of man, let your face be turned to the south, let your words be dropped to the south, and be a prophet against the woodland of the South;
Ezekiel 20:47
And say to the woodland of the South, Give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said: See, I will have a fire lighted in you, for the destruction of every green tree in you and every dry tree: the flaming flame will not be put out, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it.
Ezekiel 21:2
Son of man, let your face be turned to Jerusalem, let your words be dropped in the direction of her holy place, and be a prophet against the land of Israel;
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Numbers 10:13
They went forward for the first time on their journey as the Lord had given orders by the hand of Moses.
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Deuteronomy 7:7
The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:
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Deuteronomy 7:8
But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
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Psalms 103:10
He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing.
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Psalms 139:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.
Psalms 139:2
You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.
Psalms 139:3
You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.
Psalms 139:4
For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.
Psalms 139:5
I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.
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Romans 1:24
For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:
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Revelation 12:6
And the woman went in flight to the waste land, where she has a place made ready by God, so that there they may give her food a thousand, two hundred and sixty days.
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