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Ezek.|22:1|-|Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezek.|22:2|-|Now you, |a|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 |a|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 |1|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 |a|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 |a|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 |a|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 |a|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 |a|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 |a|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 |a|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|a man among them who would build up the wall and |b|stand in the breach before Me for the sake of the land so that I would not destroy it, but I found |c|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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