Ezekiel 16:47
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
Context
This verse from Ezekiel Chapter 16 connects to 10 cross-references. The extended allegory of the unfaithful wife: Jerusalem is like an abandoned infant rescued, raised to beauty, and betrothed by God, who then prostituted herself to every nation worse than Samaria or Sodom. Yet God will remember the covenant made …
Other Translations
Yet hast thou not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast more corrupt than they in all thy ways.
And--in their ways thou hast not walked, And according to their abominations done, As a little thing it hath been loathed, And thou dost more corruptly than they in all thy ways.
Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.
Cross References
And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins …
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin …
But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed …
Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified …
As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast …
Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the …
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have …
And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that …
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke …
But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent …