“1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Now, thou son
of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou
shalt shew her all her abominations. 3 Then say thou, Thus saith the
Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may
come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. 4 Thou art
become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself
in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to
draw near, and art come [even] unto thy years: therefore have I made
thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. 5
[Those that be] near, and [those that be] far from thee, shall mock
thee, [which art] infamous [and] much vexed. 6 Behold, the princes of
Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood. 7 In thee
have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they
dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the
fatherless and the widow. 8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and
hast profaned my sabbaths. 9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed
blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee
they commit lewdness. 10 In thee have they discovered their fathers’
nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for
pollution. 11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s
wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another
in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter. 12 In thee have
they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and
thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast
forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD. 13 Behold, therefore I have smitten
mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood
which hath been in the midst of thee. 14 Can thine heart endure, or can
thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the
LORD have spoken [it], and will do [it]. 15 And I will scatter thee
among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume
thy filthiness out of thee. 16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in
thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I [am] the
LORD.”
“17 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, the
house of Israel is to me become dross: all they [are] brass, and tin,
and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are [even] the
dross of silver. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are
all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of
Jerusalem. 20 [As] they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead,
and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to
melt [it]; so will I gather [you] in mine anger and in my fury, and I
will leave [you there], and melt you. 21 Yea, I will gather you, and
blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the
midst thereof. 22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so
shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the
LORD have poured out my fury upon you.”
“23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24 Son of man, say
unto her, Thou [art] the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in
the day of indignation. 25 [There is] a conspiracy of her prophets in
the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have
devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they
have made her many widows in the midst thereof. 26 Her priests have
violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no
difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed
[difference] between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes
from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in the
midst thereof [are] like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and]
to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 28 And her prophets have daubed
them with untempered [morter], seeing vanity, and divining lies unto
them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. 29
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and
have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger
wrongfully. 30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up
the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should
not destroy it: but I found none. 31 Therefore have I poured out mine
indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath:
their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.”
(Ezekiel 22:1-31 AV)
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