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Ezekiel 22
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| 22:1
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
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| 22:2
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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| 22:3
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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| 22:4
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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| 22:5
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. |
 (22:10) "They humbled her that was set apart for pollution."
(They had sex with a menstruating woman.)
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| 22:11
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. |
 (22:15) "I will consume thy filthiness out of thee."
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| 22:16
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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| 22:17
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
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| 22:18
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. |
 (22:20-22) God will gather all of Israel and consume them in the fires of his anger.
(22:20) "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."
(22:21) "Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof."
(22:22) "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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| 22:20
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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| 22:21
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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| 22:23
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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| 22:24
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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| 22:27
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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| 22:28
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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| 22:29
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. |
(22:30-31) God couldn't find anyone to stand up to him, so he's going
to destroy everyone.
(22:30) "I sought for a man among them, that should ... stand ... before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none."
(22:31) "Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath ... saith the Lord GOD."
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| 22:30
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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| 22:31
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.
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