Quotes about Judgment
I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.
— Ezekiel 17:20
Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
— Ezekiel 18:4
though the father has done none of them: Indeed, the son eats at the mountain and defiles his neighbor’s wife.
— Ezekiel 18:11
He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
— Ezekiel 18:13
Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:
— Ezekiel 18:14
Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
— Ezekiel 18:19
Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord GOD. Wouldn’t I prefer that he turn from his ways and live?
— Ezekiel 18:23
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
— Ezekiel 18:25
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
— Ezekiel 18:26
Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
— Ezekiel 18:29
Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.
— Ezekiel 18:30
“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel
— Ezekiel 19:1