Isaiah 57:17

God judged Israel for greedy iniquity by striking and hiding Himself, yet she kept backsliding. Sin persists even under chastening apart from grace.

Cross-references · 21

• Isa 56:11Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
• Jer 6:13“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.
• Col 3:5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• Eph 5:3–5But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
• 2 Pet 2:14having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
• Isa 8:17I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
• Eccl 6:9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
• Isa 5:8–9Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
• Isa 9:13Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
• Jer 5:3O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
• Luke 12:15He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
• Jer 8:10Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
• 1 Tim 6:9But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
• Isa 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
• Jer 22:17But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
• Ezek 33:31They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
• Isa 45:15Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’”
• Mic 2:2–3They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
• Jer 2:30“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
• 2 Pet 2:3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
• Luke 15:14–16When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

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