Ezekiel 12:3

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Ezekiel 12:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

2 “Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.

3 Therefore, son of man, pack your bags for exile. In broad daylight, set out from your place and go to another as they watch. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.

4 Bring out your baggage for exile by day, as they watch. Then in the evening, as they watch, go out like those who go into exile.

5 As they watch, dig through the wall and carry your belongings out through it.

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Ezekiel 12:10

Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are there.’

Ezekiel 12:11

You are to say, ‘I am a sign to you.’ Just as it happened here, so will it be done to them; they will go into exile as captives.

Ezekiel 12:12

And at dusk the prince among them will lift his bags to his shoulder and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so he cannot see the land.

Ezekiel 4:1

“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 4:2

Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.

Ezekiel 4:3

Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4:4

Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.

Ezekiel 4:5

For I have assigned to you 390 days, according to the number of years of their iniquity. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4:6

When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.

Ezekiel 4:7

You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

Ezekiel 4:8

Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

Ezekiel 4:9

But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Ezekiel 4:10

You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.

Ezekiel 4:11

You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.

Ezekiel 4:12

And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”

Ezekiel 4:13

Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”

Ezekiel 4:14

“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”

Ezekiel 4:15

“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”

Ezekiel 4:16

Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.

Ezekiel 4:17

So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.

Jeremiah 13:1

This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”

Jeremiah 13:2

So I bought a loincloth as the LORD had instructed me, and I put it around my waist.

Jeremiah 13:3

Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time:

Jeremiah 13:4

“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”

Jeremiah 13:5

So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD had commanded me.

Jeremiah 13:6

Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”

Jeremiah 13:7

So I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined—of no use at all.

Jeremiah 13:8

Then the word of the LORD came to me:

Jeremiah 13:9

“This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 13:10

These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.

Jeremiah 13:11

For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.

Jeremiah 18:2

“Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal My message to you.”

Jeremiah 18:3

So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.

Jeremiah 18:4

But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.

Jeremiah 18:5

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Jeremiah 18:6

“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

Jeremiah 18:7

At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

Jeremiah 18:8

But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

Jeremiah 18:9

And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,

Jeremiah 18:10

and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.

Jeremiah 18:11

Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’

Jeremiah 18:12

But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

Jeremiah 19:1

This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,

Jeremiah 19:2

and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,

Jeremiah 19:3

saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,

Jeremiah 19:4

because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

Jeremiah 19:5

They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.

Jeremiah 19:6

So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

Jeremiah 19:7

And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 19:8

I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

Jeremiah 19:9

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

Jeremiah 19:10

Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,

Jeremiah 19:11

and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.

Jeremiah 19:12

This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.

Jeremiah 19:13

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”

Jeremiah 19:14

Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,

Jeremiah 19:15

“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”

Jeremiah 27:2

This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’

Deuteronomy 5:29

If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.

Deuteronomy 32:29

If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

Psalms 81:13

If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,

Jeremiah 25:4

And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.

Jeremiah 25:5

The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.

Jeremiah 25:6

Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’

Jeremiah 25:7

‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.’

Jeremiah 26:3

Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.

Jeremiah 36:3

Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

Jeremiah 36:7

Perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD, and each one will turn from his wicked way; for great are the anger and fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.”

Luke 13:8

‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

Luke 13:9

If it bears fruit next year, fine. But if not, you can cut it down.’”

Luke 13:34

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Luke 20:13

‘What shall I do?’ asked the owner of the vineyard. ‘I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him.’

2 Timothy 2:25

He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.