Ezekiel 5:11

5:11 “Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare ¹  you.

Ezekiel 8:18

8:18 Therefore I will act with fury! My eye will not pity them nor will I spare ²  them. When they have shouted in my ears, I will not listen to them.”

Ezekiel 13:5

13:5 You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the Lord.

Ezekiel 14:11

14:11 so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, ³  declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Ezekiel 19:14

19:14 A fire has gone out from its branch; it has consumed its shoot and its fruit. ⁴ 

No strong branch was left in it, nor a scepter to rule.’

This is a lament song, and has become a lament song.”

Ezekiel 31:8

31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it,

nor could the fir trees ⁵  match its boughs;

the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches;

no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.

Ezekiel 44:13

44:13 They will not come near me to serve me as priest, nor will they come near any of my holy things, the things which are most sacred. They will bear the shame of the abominable deeds they have committed.

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¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

² tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

³ sn I will be their God. See Exod 6:7; Lev 26:12; Jer 7:23; 11:4.

⁴ tn The verse describes the similar situation recorded in Judg 9:20.

⁵ tn Or “cypress trees” (cf. NASB, NLT); NIV “pine trees.”