Pervade all ranks. Isa. 1:5. Jer. 5:1-5. Jer. 6:13.
Often caused and encouraged by rulers. 1 Kin. 12:26-33. 1 Kin. 14:16. 2 Chr. 21:11-13. Prov. 29:12.
Often caused by prosperity. Deut. 32:15. Neh. 9:28. Jer. 48:11. Ezek. 16:49. Ezek. 28:5.
DEFILE
The land. Lev. 18:25. Num. 35:33, 34. Psa. 106:38. Isa. 24:5. Mic. 2:10.
The people. Lev. 18:24. Ezek. 14:11.
National worship. Isa. 1:10-15. Amos 5:21, 22. Hag. 2:14.
Aggravated by privileges. Isa. 5:47. Ezek. 20:11-13. Amos 2:4. Amos 3:1, 2. Matt. 11:21-24.
Lead the heathen to blaspheme. Ezek. 36:20, 23. Rom. 2:24.
Are a reproach to a people. Prov. 14:34.
SHOULD BE
Repented of. Jer. 18:8. Jonah 3:5.
Mourned over. Joel 2:12.
Confessed. Lev. 26:40. Deut. 30:2. Judg. 10:10. 1 Kin. 8:47, 48.
Turned from. Isa. 1:16. Hos. 14:1, 2. Jonah 3:10.
Saints especially mourn over. Psa. 119:136. Ezek. 9:4.
MINISTERS SHOULD
Mourn over. Ezra 10:6. Jer. 13:17. Ezek. 6:11. Joel 2:17.
Testify against. Isa. 30:8, 9. Isa, 58:1. Ezek. 2:3-5. Ezek. 22:2. Jonah 1:2.
Try to turn the people from. Jer. 23:22.
Pray for forgiveness of. Ex. 32:31, 32. Joel 2:17.
National prayer rejected on account of. Isa. 1:15. Isa. 59:2.
National worship rejected on account of. Isa. 1:10-14. Jer. 6:19, 20. Jer. 7:9-14.
Cause the withdrawal of privileges. Lam. 2:9. Amos 8:11. Matt. 23:37-39.
Bring down national judgments. Matt. 23:35, 36. Matt. 27:25.
Denunciations against. Isa. 1:24. Isa. 30:1. Jer. 5:9. Jer. 6:27-30.
Punishment for. Isa. 3:8. Jer. 12:17. Jer. 25:12. Ezek. 28:7-10.
Punishment for, averted on repentance. Judg. 10:15, 16. 2 Chr. 12:6, 7. Psa. 106:43-46. Jonah 3:10. Exemplified. Sodom and Gomorrah, Gen. 18:20. 2 Peter 2:6. Children of Israel, Ex. 16:8. Ex. 32:31. Nations of Canaan, Deut. 9:4. Kingdom of Israel, 2 Kin. 17:812. Hos. 4:1, 2. Kingdom of Judah, 2 Kin. 17:19. Isa. 1:2-7. Moab, Jer. 48.29. 30. Babylon, Jer. 51:6, 13, 52. Tyre, Ezek. 28:2. Nineveh, Nah. 3:1.