Ezekiel 9:9

He said to me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, ¹  for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’ ² 

De 31:29; De 32:5,15-22; 2Ki 17:7-23; 2Ki 21:16; 2Ki 24:4; 2Ch 36:14-16; Job 22:13; Ps 10:11; Ps 94:7; Isa 1:4; Isa 29:15; Isa 59:2-8,12-15; Jer 2:34; Jer 5:1-9; Jer 7:8,9; Jer 22:17; La 4:13,14; Eze 7:23; Eze 8:12; Eze 8:17; Eze 22:2-12,25-31; Eze 22:27-29; Mic 3:1-3; Mic 3:9-12; Mic 7:3,4; Zep 3:1-4; Mt 23:35-37; Lu 11:50

¹ tn Or “lawlessness” (NAB); “perversity” (NRSV). The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT, and its meaning is uncertain. The similar phrase in 7:23 has a common word for “violence.”

² sn The saying is virtually identical to that of the elders in Ezek 8:12.