Ezekiel 22

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Ezek. 22:1 Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezek. 22:2 Now you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Therefore make her know all her abominations.
Ezek. 22:3 And you shall say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols, against her [own good,] that she may defile herself!
Ezek. 22:4 You are guilty for the blood which you have shed and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near and have come to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the countries.
Ezek. 22:5 Those who are near and those who are far off from you will mock you, who are ill-reputed [and] in great tumult.
Ezek. 22:6 Indeed the princes of Israel, each according to his power, were within you to shed blood.
Ezek. 22:7 They have lightly esteemed father and mother within you; they have treated the stranger with oppression in the midst of you, and the orphan and the widow they have ill-treated within you.
Ezek. 22:8 You have despised My holy things and have profaned My Sabbaths.
Ezek. 22:9 Slanderous men are within you in order to shed blood, and within you they have eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.
Ezek. 22:10 In you they have uncovered the nakedness of [their] father; they have humbled women in their uncleanness within you.
Ezek. 22:11 And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law, and another has humbled his sister, his father's daughter, within you.
Ezek. 22:12 Within you they have taken bribes in order to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase and have wrested unjust gain from your neighbors by extortion and have forgotten Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezek. 22:13 Therefore I have now struck My hand against your wrested unjust gain which you have made and at the bloodshed which is in the midst of you.
Ezek. 22:14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days when I will deal with you? I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I will do [it.]
Ezek. 22:15 And I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness from you.
Ezek. 22:16 And you will be profaned through yourself in the sight of the nations, and you will know that I am Jehovah.
Ezek. 22:17 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezek. 22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
Ezek. 22:19 Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because all of you have become dross, therefore I am now gathering you into the midst of Jerusalem.
Ezek. 22:20 As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace to blow fire upon it [and] smelt [it,] so will I gather [you] in My anger and in My wrath; and I will lay [you there] and smelt you.
Ezek. 22:21 Yes, I will gather you and blow upon you with the fire of My overflowing wrath, and you will be smelted in the midst of it.
Ezek. 22:22 As silver is smelted in the midst of the furnace, so will you be smelted in the midst of it; and you will know that I, Jehovah, have poured out My wrath upon you.
Ezek. 22:23 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezek. 22:24 Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation.
Ezek. 22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of her, like a roaring lion taking prey: They have devoured souls; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have increased [the number of ] her widows in the midst of her.
Ezek. 22:26 Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, nor have they made [the difference] known between the unclean and the clean; and from My Sabbaths they have hidden their eyes; and I am profaned in the midst of them.
Ezek. 22:27 Her rulers within her are like wolves taking prey, by shedding blood [and] destroying souls in order to wrest unjust gain.
Ezek. 22:28 And her prophets have plastered over [their deeds] with untempered mortar for them, seeing vain visions and deceptive divination for them, saying, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah has not spoken.
Ezek. 22:29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and have committed plunder and have oppressed the poor and needy and have mistreated the stranger without justice.
Ezek. 22:30 And I sought a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the breach before Me for the sake of the land so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.
Ezek. 22:31 Therefore I have poured out My indignation upon them; in the fire of My overflowing wrath I have consumed them; I have brought their own way upon their heads, declares the Lord Jehovah.
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