Verse 30

Ezekiel 20:30

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

30 Wherefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God (Elohim): Verily, you are defiled in the way of your fathers, and you commit fornication with their abominations.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לָ/כֵ֞ן אֱמֹ֣ר אֶל בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣/י יְהוִ֔ה הַ/בְּ/דֶ֥רֶךְ אֲבֽוֹתֵי/כֶ֖ם אַתֶּ֣ם נִטְמְאִ֑ים וְ/אַחֲרֵ֥י שִׁקּוּצֵי/הֶ֖ם אַתֶּ֥ם זֹנִֽים
English Translation
Therefore say to the house of Israel, thus says Lord Yahweh: By the way of your fathers you have become unclean, and after their abominations you are committing whoredom.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 20 Context
1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month: there came... Focus ↗
2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Focus ↗
3 Son of man, speak to the ancients of Israel, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God (Elohim): Are... Focus ↗
4 If thou judgest them, if thou judgest, son of man, declare to them the abominations of their fathers... Focus ↗
5 And say to them: Thus saith the Lord God (Elohim) : In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up my... Focus ↗
6 In that day I lifted up my hand for them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt, into a land which... Focus ↗
7 And I said to them: Let every man cast away the scandals of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with... Focus ↗
8 But they provoked me, and would not hearken to me: they did not every man cast away the abominations... Focus ↗
9 But I did otherwise for my name's sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, in the mid... Focus ↗
10 Therefore I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and brought them into the desert. Focus ↗
11 And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in the... Focus ↗
12 Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them: and that they might know th... Focus ↗
13 But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast awa... Focus ↗
14 But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should be profaned before the nations, from which... Focus ↗
15 So I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, not to bring them into the land which I had given th... Focus ↗
16 Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for the... Focus ↗
17 Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert. Focus ↗
18 And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, and observ... Focus ↗
19 I am the Lord your God (Elohim): walk ye in my statutes, and observe my judgments, and do them. Focus ↗
20 And sanctify my sabbaths, that they may be a sign between me and you: and that you may know that I a... Focus ↗
21 But their children provoked me, they walked not in my commandments, nor observed my judgments to do... Focus ↗
22 But I turned away my hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it might not be violated before the... Focus ↗
23 Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the wilderness, to disperse them among the nations, and scatt... Focus ↗
24 Because they had not done my judgments, and had cast off my statutes, and had violated my sabbaths,... Focus ↗
25 Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live. Focus ↗
26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, when they offered all that opened the womb, for their offenc... Focus ↗
27 Wherefore speak to the house of Israel, O son of man, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God (Eloh... Focus ↗
28 And I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it them: they saw every... Focus ↗
29 And I said to them: What meaneth the high place to which you go? and the name thereof was called Hig... Focus ↗
30 Wherefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God (Elohim): Verily, you are defiled in t...
31 And you defile yourselves with all your: idols unto this day, in the offering of your gifts, when yo... Focus ↗
32 Neither shall the thought of your mind come to pass, by which you say: We will be as the Gentiles, a... Focus ↗
33 As I live, saith the Lord God (Elohim), I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a stretch... Focus ↗
34 And I will bring you out from the people, and I will gather you out of the countries, in which you a... Focus ↗
35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of people, and there will I plead with you face to face. Focus ↗
36 As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt; even so will I judge you, sait... Focus ↗
37 And I will make you subject to my sceptre, and will bring you into the bands of the covenant. Focus ↗
38 And I will pick out from among you the transgressors, and the wicked, and will bring them out of the... Focus ↗
39 And as for you, O house of Israel: thus saith the Lord God (Elohim): Walk ye every one after your id... Focus ↗
40 In my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, saith the Lord God (Elohim), there shall all th... Focus ↗
41 I will accept of you for an odour of sweetness, when I shall have brought you out from the people, a... Focus ↗
42 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have brought you into the land of Israel, into t... Focus ↗
43 And there you shall remember your ways, and all your wicked doings with which you have been defiled;... Focus ↗
44 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have done well by you for my own name's sake, an... Focus ↗
45 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying : Focus ↗
46 Son of man, set thy face against the way of the south, and drop towards the south, and prophesy agai... Focus ↗
47 And any to the south forest: Hear the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God (Elohim): Behold I w... Focus ↗
48 And all flesh shall see, that I the Lord have kindled it, and it shall not be quenched. Focus ↗
49 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God (Elohim): they say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables? Focus ↗