Ezekiel 20:21   (Read all of Ezekiel 20)

" 'But the children rebelled against me: They did not follow my decrees, they were not careful to keep my laws, of which I said, "The person who obeys them will live by them," and they desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20:25   (Read all of Ezekiel 20)

So I gave them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live;

Ezekiel 20:31   (Read all of Ezekiel 20)

When you offer your gifts-the sacrifice of your children in the fire-you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Am I to let you inquire of me, you Israelites? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will not let you inquire of me.

Ezekiel 20:33   (Read all of Ezekiel 20)

As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will reign over you with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath.

Ezekiel 21:21   (Read all of Ezekiel 21)

For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots with arrows, he will consult his idols, he will examine the liver.

Ezekiel 26:17   (Read all of Ezekiel 26)

Then they will take up a lament concerning you and say to you: " 'How you are destroyed, city of renown, peopled by men of the sea! You were a power on the seas, you and your citizens; you put your terror on all who lived there.

Ezekiel 27:35   (Read all of Ezekiel 27)

All who live in the coastlands are appalled at you; their kings shudder with horror and their faces are distorted with fear.

Ezekiel 28:25   (Read all of Ezekiel 28)

" 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I gather the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.

Ezekiel 28:26   (Read all of Ezekiel 28)

They will live there in safety and will build houses and plant vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.' "

Ezekiel 29:6   (Read all of Ezekiel 29)

Then all who live in Egypt will know that I am the Lord. " 'You have been a staff of reed for the people of Israel.

Ezekiel 29:11   (Read all of Ezekiel 29)

The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.

Ezekiel 31:6   (Read all of Ezekiel 31)

All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs, all the animals of the wild gave birth under its branches; all the great nations lived in its shade.

Ezekiel 31:13   (Read all of Ezekiel 31)

All the birds settled on the fallen tree, and all the wild animals lived among its branches.

Ezekiel 31:17   (Read all of Ezekiel 31)

They too, like the great cedar, had gone down to the realm of the dead, to those killed by the sword, along with the armed men who lived in its shade among the nations.

Ezekiel 32:15   (Read all of Ezekiel 32)

When I make Egypt desolate and strip the land of everything in it, when I strike down all who live there, then they will know that I am the Lord.'

Ezekiel 33:10   (Read all of Ezekiel 33)

"Son of man, say to the Israelites, 'This is what you are saying: "Our offenses and sins weigh us down, and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?" '

Ezekiel 33:11   (Read all of Ezekiel 33)

Say to them, 'As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?'

Ezekiel 33:12   (Read all of Ezekiel 33)

"Therefore, son of man, say to your people, 'If someone who is righteous disobeys, that person's former righteousness will count for nothing. And if someone who is wicked repents, that person's former wickedness will not bring condemnation. The righteous person who sins will not be allowed to live even though they were formerly righteous.'

Ezekiel 33:13   (Read all of Ezekiel 33)

If I tell a righteous person that they will surely live, but then they trust in their righteousness and do evil, none of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered; they will die for the evil they have done.

Ezekiel 33:15   (Read all of Ezekiel 33)

if they give back what they took in pledge for a loan, return what they have stolen, follow the decrees that give life, and do no evil-that person will surely live; they will not die.

Ezekiel 33:16   (Read all of Ezekiel 33)

None of the sins that person has committed will be remembered against them. They have done what is just and right; they will surely live.

Ezekiel 33:19   (Read all of Ezekiel 33)

And if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live by doing so.

Ezekiel 33:27   (Read all of Ezekiel 33)

"Say this to them: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague.

Ezekiel 34:8   (Read all of Ezekiel 34)

As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food for all the wild animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,