Ezekiel 16:50
And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
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
And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
And they are haughty and do abomination before Me, And I turn them aside when I have seen.
They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.
Cross References
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? …
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor …
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women …
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.