Quotes About Defilement

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”

They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.

“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORDís house.”

They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.

Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”

I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

In the wilderness I said to their children: ëDo not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?

When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be consulted by you!

And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.

There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.

and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëO city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself,

you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.

And when you have defiled yourself in the eyes of the nations, then you will know that I am the LORD.í”

She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.

And I saw that she too had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path.

Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.

have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.

“Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. Their behavior before Me was like the uncleanness of a womanís impurity.

So I poured out My wrath upon them because of the blood they had shed on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.

and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.

When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.

In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant.