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.
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.
- KJV Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
- 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.
- 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.
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Cross-references · 12
- Ezek 23:27Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt; so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.’
- Ezek 16:41They will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you will also give no hire any more.
- 2 Pet 2:6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;
- Ezek 6:6In all your dwelling places 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 incense altars 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 sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.
- Ezek 22:15I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries. I will consume your filthiness out of you.
- Isa 26:9With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
- Mic 5:11–14I will cut off the cities of your land, and will tear down all your strongholds.
- Ezek 36:25I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you 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, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes — I, Yahweh, have spoken it —
- Deut 13:11All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.
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