Gen 18:22-33, Deu 8:2, Neh 9:33, Pro 26:2, Jer 7:17-28, Eze 8:6-18, 9:8-9 | ESV | STEP | So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom , but Abraham still stood before the Lord .

22 ^aSo the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham ^bstill stood before the Lord. 23 Then Abraham drew near and said, ^c“Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, ^dso that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! ^eShall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” 26 And the Lord said, ^f“If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

27 Abraham answered and said, ^g“Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes. 28 Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.” 29 Again he spoke to him and said, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.” 30 Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.” 31 He said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.” 32 Then he said, ^h“Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.” 33 And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

Deuteronomy 8:2

2 And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you ⁱthese forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, ^jtesting you ^kto know what was in your heart, ^lwhether you would keep his commandments or not.

Nehemiah 9:33

33 ^mYet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully ⁿand we have acted wickedly.

Proverbs 26:2

2 Like ^oa sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,
^pa curse that is causeless does not alight.

Jeremiah 7:17-28

17 Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, ^qand the women knead dough, to ^rmake cakes for ^sthe queen of heaven. And ^tthey pour out drink offerings to other gods, ^uto provoke me to anger. 19 ^vIs it I whom they provoke? declares the Lord. Is it not themselves, ^wto their own shame? 20 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^xmy anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; ^yit will burn and not be quenched.”

21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^z“Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. 22 For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them ^aaconcerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23 But this command I gave them: ^ab‘Obey my voice, and ^acI will be your God, and you shall be my people. ^adAnd walk in all the way that I command you, ^aethat it may be well with you.’ 24 ^afBut they did not obey or incline their ear, ^agbut walked in their own counsels and ^ahthe stubbornness of their evil hearts, and ^aiwent backward and not forward. 25 From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, ^ajI have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day. 26 ^akYet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, ^albut stiffened their neck. ^amThey did worse than their fathers.

27 ^an“So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. ^aoYou shall call to them, but they will not answer you. 28 And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, and did not accept discipline; ^aptruth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.

Ezekiel 8:6-18

6 And he said to me, “Son of man, ^aqdo you see what they are doing, ^arthe great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, ^asto drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”

7 And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall. 8 Then he said to me, “Son of man, ^atdig in the wall.” So I dug in the wall, and behold, there was an entrance. 9 And he said to me, “Go in, and see ^authe vile abominations that they are committing here.” 10 So I went in and saw. And there, ^avengraved on the wall all around, was ^awevery form of ^axcreeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel. 11 And before them stood ^ayseventy men of ^azthe elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of ^baShaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and ^bbthe smoke of the cloud of incense went up. 12 Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing ^bcin the dark, each ^bdin his room of pictures? For they say, ^be‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’” 13 He said also to me, ^bf“You will see still greater abominations that they commit.”

14 Then he brought me to ^bgthe entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 15 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O ^bhson of man? ^biYou will see still greater abominations than these.”

16 And he brought me into ^bjthe inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, ^bkbetween the ^blporch and ^bmthe altar, were about twenty-five men, ^bnwith their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping ^bothe sun toward the east. 17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O ^bpson of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit ^bqthe abominations that they commit here, that ^brthey should fill the land with violence and ^bsprovoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their ^{▼▼Or my} nose. 18 Therefore ^buI will act in wrath. ^bvMy eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. ^bwAnd though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”

Ezekiel 9:8-9

8 And while they were striking, and I was left alone, ^bxI fell upon my face, and cried, ^by“Ah, Lord God! ^bzWill you destroy all the remnant of Israel ^cain the outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”

9 Then he said to me, ^cb“The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. ^ccThe land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For ^cdthey say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’