Deu 31:29, 32:5, 15-22, 2Ki 17:7-23, Eze 7:23, 22:2-12, 25-31 | ESV | STEP | For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord , provoking him to anger through the work of your hands .

29 For I know that after my death ^ayou will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And ^bin the days to come ^cevil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, ^dprovoking him to anger through the work of your hands.”

Deuteronomy 32:5

5 They have dealt corruptly with him;
they are no longer his children ^ebecause they are blemished;
they are ^fa crooked and twisted generation.

Deuteronomy 32:15-22

15 “But ^gJeshurun grew fat, and ^hkicked;
ⁱyou grew fat, stout, and sleek;
^jthen he forsook God ^kwho made him
and scoffed at ^lthe Rock of his salvation.
16 ^mThey stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 ⁿThey sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
to gods they had never known,
to ^onew gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
18 You were unmindful of ^pthe Rock that bore ^{▼▼Or fathered} you,
and you ^rforgot the God who gave you birth.
19 ^s“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
because of the provocation of ^this sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, ^u‘I will hide my face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
21 ^vThey have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger ^wwith their idols.
So ^xI will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with ^ya foolish nation.
22 For ^za fire is kindled by my anger,
and it burns to ^aathe depths of Sheol,
devours the earth and its increase,
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

2 Kings 17:7-23

Exile Because of Idolatry

7 And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, ^abwho had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods 8 ^acand walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, ^adand in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. 9 And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, ^aefrom watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves ^afpillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger, 12 and they served idols, ^agof which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13 Yet the Lord ^ahwarned Israel and Judah ^aiby every prophet ^ajand every seer, saying, ^ak“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

14 But they would not listen, ^albut were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They despised his statutes ^amand his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after ^anfalse idols ^aoand became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the ^apLord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of ^aqtwo calves; and they ^armade an Asherah and ^asworshiped all the host of heaven and served ^atBaal. 17 ^auAnd they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings ^{▼▼Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire} and used ^awdivination and ^axomens and ^aysold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but ^azthe tribe of Judah only.

19 ^baJudah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. 20 And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them ^bband gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

21 ^bcWhen he had torn Israel from the house of David, ^bdthey made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord ^beand made them commit great sin. 22 The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them, 23 until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, ^bfas he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. ^bgSo Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.

Ezekiel 7:23

23 ^bh“Forge a chain! ^{▼▼Probably refers to an instrument of captivity} ^bjFor the land is full of bloody crimes ^bkand the city is full of violence.

Ezekiel 22:2-12

2 “And you, ^blson of man, ^bmwill you judge, will you judge ^bnthe bloody city? ^boThen declare to her all her abominations. 3 You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that ^bpher time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! 4 You have become guilty ^bqby the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought ^bryour days near, the appointed time of ^{▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; most Hebrew manuscripts until} your years has come. ^btTherefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. 5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; ^buyour name is defiled; ^bvyou are full of tumult.

6 “Behold, ^bwthe princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 7 Father and mother ^bxare treated with contempt in you; the sojourner ^bysuffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow ^bzare wronged in you. 8 ^caYou have despised my holy things and ^cbprofaned my Sabbaths. 9 ^ccThere are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you ^cdwho eat on the mountains; ^cethey commit lewdness in your midst. 10 In you ^cfmen uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. 11 ^cgOne commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; ^chanother lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; ^cianother in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter. 12 In you ^cjthey take bribes to shed blood; ^ckyou take interest and profit ^{▼▼That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor (compare Leviticus 25:36)} and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but ^cmme you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:25-31

25 ^cnThe conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is ^colike a roaring lion ^cptearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 ^cqHer priests ^crhave done violence to my law and ^cshave profaned my holy things. ^ctThey have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and ^cuthey have disregarded my Sabbaths, ^cvso that I am profaned among them. 27 ^cwHer princes in her midst are like wolves ^cxtearing the prey, ^cyshedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. 28 And ^czher prophets have smeared whitewash for them, ^daseeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken. 29 The people of the land ^dbhave practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and ^dchave extorted from the sojourner without justice. 30 ^ddAnd I sought for a man among them ^dewho should build up the wall ^dfand stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. 31 Therefore ^dgI have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned ^dhtheir way upon their heads, declares the Lord God.”