Ezekiel 16:50
What does Ezekiel 16:50 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 16:50 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And they are haughty and do abomination before Me, And I turn them aside when I have seen.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me: and I took them away as thou hast seen.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me, and I took them away when I saw [it].
Context
v.49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
v.50This passage
v.51Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters by all thine abominations which thou hast done.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 18:20
And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
- Deuteronomy 29:23
and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
- Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against Jehovah exceedingly.
- Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
- Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; And before honorgoethhumility.
- Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
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