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Ezekiel Chapter 22

¹Moreover the word of ForeverOne came to me, saying, ²You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.

³You shall say, Thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!

⁴You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.

⁵Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one [and] full of tumult.

⁶Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.

⁷In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

⁸You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

⁹Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.

¹⁰In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.

¹¹One 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.

¹²In 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 LordOfMine ForeverOne.

¹³Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.

¹⁴Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I, ForeverOne, have spoken it, and will do it.

¹⁵I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you.

¹⁶You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; and you shall know that I am ForeverOne.

¹⁷The word of ForeverOne came to me, saying, ¹⁸Son 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.

¹⁹Therefore thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

²⁰As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.

²¹Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst.

²²As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so you will be melted in its midst; and you will know that I, ForeverOne, have poured out my wrath on you.

²³The word of ForeverOne came to me, saying, ²⁴Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.

²⁵There 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.

²⁶Her 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 hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

²⁷Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

²⁸Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne, when ForeverOne has not spoken.

²⁹The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

³⁰I sought for a man among them, who 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.

³¹Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought on their heads, says LordOfMine ForeverOne.