Ezek 22
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Moreover the word of YHWH came to me, saying,
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And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause her
to know all her abominations.
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And you shall say, Thus says the Lord YHWH: A city that sheds blood in the midst of
her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
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You are become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and art defiled in your idols
which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and art come even
to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking
to all the countries.
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Those that are near, and those that are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous
one [and] full of tumult.
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Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been in you
to shed blood.
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In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt
by oppression with the sojourner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the
widow.
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You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my sabbaths.
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Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten upon the
mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.
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In you have they uncovered their fathers` nakedness; in you have they humbled her
that was unclean in her impurity.
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And one has committed abomination with his neighbor`s wife; and another has lewdly
defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father`s
daughter.
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In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase,
and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,
says the Lord YHWH.
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Behold, therefore, I have smitten my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made,
and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
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Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal
with you? I, YHWH, have spoken it, and will do it.
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And I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries;
and I will consume your filthiness out of you.
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And you shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; and you shall
know that I am YHWH.
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And the word of YHWH came to me, saying,
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Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin
and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
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Therefore thus says the Lord YHWH: Because you are all become dross, therefore, behold,
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
anger, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
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Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you with the fire of my anger, and you shall
be melted in its midst.
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As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst
thereof; and you shall know that I, YHWH, have poured out my anger upon you.
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And the word of YHWH came to me, saying,
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Son of man, say to her, You are a 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 its midst, like a roaring lion ravening
the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have
made her widows many in its midst.
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Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have
made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men
to discern 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 its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood,
[and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
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And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered [mortar], seeing false visions,
and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord YHWH, when YHWH has not spoken.
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The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yea, they have
vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.
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And I sought for a man among them, that should build up the wall, 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 anger: their own way have I brought upon their heads, says the Lord
YHWH.