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Chapter 22
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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
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Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge
the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Those that be near, and those that be far from thee,
shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed. |
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Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee
to their power to shed blood. |
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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. |
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Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned
my sabbaths. |
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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. |
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In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness:
in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for
pollution. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse
thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness
out of thee. |
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And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in
the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I
am the LORD. |
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And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
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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. |
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all
become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into
the midst of Jerusalem. |
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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. |
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Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire
of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof. |
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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. |
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And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
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Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is
not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening
the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get
dishonest gain. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
