Ezekiel 22

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1 And it was to me the word of the Lord:
2 And you, son of man, will you judge, judge the bloody city? cause her to know all her abominations.
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself!
4 Blood that you have shed, you become guilty, and the idols, what have you done, you have defiled themselves, and brought your days and reached the hour of yours. For this I will give thee a reproach nations, to mock all the lands.
5 Close and far from thee, shall mock thee, desecrate your name, infamous and much vexed.
6 Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.
7 Do you speak against your father and mother, the stranger among you do hurt, oppress the widow and the orphan you.
8 Shrines You have despised my and my sabbaths.
9 In thee are to shed blood, and eat upon the mountains you [offered to idols] the midst of thee infamy.
10 The nakedness of his father opened in your wife during the uncleanness of her rape you.
eleven One hath committed abomination with his neighbor's wife, another daughter-defiles her, sometimes humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
12 They taken gifts in thee to shed blood; you take usury and increase, and extortion of thy neighbor, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
13 And now, I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which you have found, and blood which is done among you.
14 Can thine heart endure, or can be strong your hand in the days that I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and will do.
15 And I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
16 And do himself despised the sight of the nations, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

17 And it was to me the word of the Lord:
18 Son of man! house of Israel has become dross to Me; all of them - tin, copper, and iron, and lead in the furnace, have become like the dross of silver.
19 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because ye are all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into Jerusalem.
20 As they gather silver, and copper, and iron, and lead, and tin, to blow the fire to melt it; so I am in my anger and in my fury I will gather, and I make there, and melt you.
21 I will gather you and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and melted in the midst thereof.
22 As silver is melted in the furnace, so you will be melted in the midst thereof, and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury on you.

23 And it was to me the word of the Lord:
24 Son of man! tell him you - land not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of wrath!
25 The conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof - as a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls, rob the treasure and precious, and many widows.
26 Her priests have violated My law, and have profaned My holy things, not separate from the holy nesvyatago and do not indicate the distinction between clean and unclean, and from my sabbaths they have closed their eyes, and I am profaned among them.
27 Her princes in her are like wolves ravening the prey; to shed blood, to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
28 And her prophets have daubed all the morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord ', then the LORD has not spoken.
29 The people of the oppression, plunder and oppress the poor and needy, and have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
thirty And I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
31 So I poured out mine indignation upon them in the fire of my wrath: their behavior they will turn their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

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