Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you.
- BSB So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.
- NKJV Thus I will cause lewdness to cease from the land, that all women may be taught not to practice your lewdness.
- NASB So I will eliminate outrageous conduct from the land, so that all women will take warning and not commit outrageous sin as you have done.
- NLT In this way, I will put an end to lewdness and idolatry in the land, and my judgment will be a warning to all women not to follow your wicked example.
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Quick answer
By this judgment God will end such lewdness in the land and warn all others against imitating it. Judgment serves as a public teaching against sin.
Overview
God's stated aim is to 'cause lewdness to cease' and to instruct 'all women', that is, all peoples and future generations, not to follow Judah's example. Judgment has a pedagogical purpose, displaying the seriousness of sin so that others may fear and turn. The discipline of one becomes a warning to many.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ezek 23:27Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
- Ezek 16:41And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
- 2 Pet 2:6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
- Ezek 6:6In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
- 1 Cor 10:6–11Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
- Zeph 1:3I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked: and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
- Ezek 22:15And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
- Isa 26:9With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
- Mic 5:11–14And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:
- Ezek 36:25Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
- Ezek 5:15So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
- Deut 13:11And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
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