Quotes about Worship

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”

So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!

so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.

you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.

He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.

I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.

For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.

So I asked them: ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ (And to this day it is called Bamah.)

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