Ezekiel 24:12
Great pains have been taken, and the great rust thereof is not gone out, not even by fire.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 6:5And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
Isaiah 1:5For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.
Isaiah 57:9And thou hast adorned thyself for the king with ointment, and hast multiplied thy perfumes. Thou hast sent thy messengers far off, and wast debased even to hell.
Jeremiah 5:3O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return.
Jeremiah 9:5And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity.
Jeremiah 13:27I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet?
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 24:2-15
The Parable of the Boiling Pot; The Explanation of the Parable. ( b. c. 590.) 1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day. 3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God ; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it: 4 Gather the pieces thereof into it,… Read the whole commentary →