Zephaniah 3:1
Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!
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Zephaniah 3:1
Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!
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Zephaniah 3:2
She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.
Jeremiah 16:18
And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.
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Leviticus 1:16
And he is to take away its stomach, with its feathers, and put it down by the east side of the altar, where the burned waste is put:
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Ezra 2:62
They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen; so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.
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Isaiah 1:5
Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
Ezekiel 24:6
For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it.
Ezekiel 24:13
As for your unclean purpose: because I have been attempting to make you clean, but you have not been made clean from it, you will not be made clean till I have let loose my passion on you in full measure.
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Zephaniah 1:4
And my hand will be stretched out on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem, cutting off the name of the Baal from this place, and the name of the false priests,
Zephaniah 1:5
And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,
Zephaniah 1:6
And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.
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Nehemiah 7:64
They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen, so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.
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Isaiah 1:21
The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.
Isaiah 59:13
We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.
Isaiah 59:14
And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.
Jeremiah 6:6
For this is what the Lord of armies has said: Let trees be cut down and an earthwork be placed against Jerusalem: sorrow on the false town! inside her there is nothing but cruel ways.
Ezekiel 22:3
And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!
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Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
Ezekiel 22:6
See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.
Ezekiel 22:7
In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.
Micah 2:2
They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.
Micah 3:2
You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;
Micah 3:3
Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
Micah 3:11
Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.
Micah 7:3
Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.
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Hosea 7:11
And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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Zephaniah 1:9
And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.
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Zephaniah 2:4
For Gaza will be given up and Ashkelon will become waste: they will send Ashdod out in the middle of the day, and Ekron will be uprooted.
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Malachi 1:12
But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.
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