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Ezekiel 23:35

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and prostitution.’”

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ASV

Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

KJV

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
לָכֵ֗ןla.Khen<to> thereforeH3651 →
כֹּ֤הkohthusH3541 →
אָמַר֙'a.Marhe saysH559 →
אֲדֹנָ֣י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136 →
יְהוִ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3069 →
יַ֚עַןYa.'anbecauseH3282 →
שָׁכַ֣חַתְּsha.Kha.chatyou have forgottenH7911 →
אוֹתִ֔י'o.Ti<obj.> meH853 →
וַתַּשְׁלִ֥יכִיva.tash.Li.khiand you have thrownH7993 →
אוֹתִ֖י'o.Ti<obj.> meH853 →
אַחֲרֵ֣י'a.cha.ReibehindH310 →
גַוֵּ֑ךְga.Vekhback yourH1458 →
וְגַם־ve.gam-and alsoH1571 →
אַ֛תְּ'atyouH859 →
שְׂאִ֥יse.'IbearH5375 →
זִמָּתֵ֖ךְzi.ma.Tekhlicentiousness yourH2154 →
וְאֶת־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853 →
תַּזְנוּתָֽיִךְ׃ סtaz.nu.Ta.yikhprostitution<s> yourH8457 →

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1 Kings 14:9You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.Numbers 14:33Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.Ezekiel 22:12In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.Isaiah 17:10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—Jeremiah 32:33They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.Jeremiah 3:21A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.Numbers 14:34In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.Hosea 8:14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.Jeremiah 2:32Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.Hosea 13:6When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.Ezekiel 8:16So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.Ezekiel 44:10Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.Leviticus 24:15And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.Numbers 18:22No longer may the Israelites come near to the Tent of Meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.Ezekiel 7:4I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’Jeremiah 23:27They suppose the dreams that they tell one another will make My people forget My name, just as their fathers forgot My name through the worship of Baal.Jeremiah 13:25This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.Nehemiah 9:26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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