Ezekiel 36:31
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Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.
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Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.
But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.