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Ezekiel - ch 22 v 1 - 20
- Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
- And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
- And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A city that sheddeth blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that maketh idols against herself to defile her!
- Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed, and art defiled 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 nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
- Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, thou infamous one `and' full of tumult.
- Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.
- In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
- Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
- Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.
- In thee have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her impurity.
- And one hath committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
- In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
- Behold, therefore, I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
- Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I, Jehovah, have spoken it, and will do it.
- And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the countries; and I will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
- And thou shalt be profaned in thyself, in the sight of the nations; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
- And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
- Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
- Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
- 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 wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
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