Ezekiel 16:47-48

16:47 Have you not copied their behavior ¹  and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time ²  you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were! 16:48 As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, your sister Sodom and her daughters never behaved as wickedly as you and your daughters have behaved.

Ezekiel 20:32

20:32 “‘What you plan ³  will never happen. You say, “We will be ⁴  like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.” ⁵ 

Amos 3:2

3:2 “I have chosen ⁶  you alone from all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”

[16:47]  ¹ tn Heb “walked in their ways.”

[16:47]  ² tn The Hebrew expression has a temporal meaning as illustrated by the use of the phrase in 2 Chr 12:7.

[20:32]  ³ tn Heb “what comes upon your mind.”

[20:32]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew could also read: “Let us be.”

[20:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “serving wood and stone.”

[3:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “You only have I known.” The Hebrew verb יָדַע (yada’) is used here in its covenantal sense of “recognize in a special way.”