Ezekiel:22

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* Moreouer , the worde of the Lorde came vnto me , saying , * Now , thou son of man , wilt thou (note :)Are you ready to execute your charge , which I commit to you against Jerusalem that murders the prophets and them that are godly ?(:note ) judge , wilt thou judge the bloody city ? yea , thou shalt show her all her abominations . * Then say thou , Thus saith the Lord GOD , The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it , that her (note :)That is , the time of her destruction .(:note ) time may come , and maketh idols against To her own undoing . herself to defile herself . * Thou hast offended in thy blood , that thou hast shed , &amp ; hast polluted thy selfe in thine idols , which thou hast made , and thou hast caused thy dayes to draw neere , &amp ; art come vnto thy terme : therefore haue I made thee a reproch to the heathen , and a mocking to all countreys . * [Those that are ] near , and [those that are ] far from thee , shall mock thee , [who art ] (note :)Whose very name all men hate .(:note ) infamous [and ] much troubled . * Beholde , the princes of Israel euery one in thee was ready to his power , to shed blood . * In thee have they set light by father and mother : in the midst of thee (note :)He means by this that there was no kind of wickedness which was not committed in Jerusalem and therefore the plagues of God would speedily come on her .(:note ) have they dealt by oppression with the stranger : in thee have they oppressed the fatherless and the widow . * Thou hast despised mine holy things , and hast polluted my Sabbaths . * In thee are men that cary tales to shed blood : in thee are they that eate vpon the mountaines : in ye mids of thee they comit abomination . * In thee haue they discouered their fathers shame : in thee haue they vexed her that was polluted in her floures . * And euery one hath committed abomination with his neighbours wife , and euery one hath wickedly defiled his daughter in lawe , and in thee hath euery man forced his owne sister , euen his fathers daughter . * In thee haue they taken giftes to shed blood : thou hast taken vsurie and the encrease , and thou hast defrauded thy neighbours by extortion , &amp ; hast forgotten me , saith the Lord God . * Behold , therefore I have (note :)In token of my wrath and vengeance .(:note ) 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 (note :)That is , able to defend yourself .(:note ) be strong , in the days that I shall deal with thee ? I the LORD have spoken [it ], and will do [it ]. * And I will scatter thee among the nations , and disperse thee in the countries , and will consume thy (note :)I will thus take away the occasion of your wickedness .(:note ) filthiness out of thee . * And thou shalt take thy (note :)You will be no more the inheritance of the Lord , but forsaken .(:note ) inheritance in thyself in the sight of the nations , and thou shalt know that I [am ] the LORD . * And the worde of the Lorde came vnto me , saying , * Son of man , the house of Israel is to me become (note :)Which before was most precious .(:note ) dross : all they [are ] brass , and tin , and iron , and lead , in the midst of the furnace ; they are [even ] the dross of silver . * Therefore , thus sayth the Lorde God , Because ye are all as drosse , beholde , therefore I will gather you in the middes of Ierusalem . * [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 my anger and in my fury , and I will leave [you there ], (note :)Meaning by this that the godly would be tried and the wicked destroyed .(:note ) and melt you . * I wil gather you , I say , and blowe the fire of my wrath vpon you , and you shalbe melted in the mids thereof . * As siluer is melted in the mids of the fornace , so shal ye be melted in the mids thereof , and ye shall knowe , that I the Lord haue powred out my wrath vpon you . * And the worde of the Lord came vnto me , saying , * Son of man , say to her , Thou [art ] the land that is not cleansed , (note :)You are like a barren land which the Lord plagues with drought .(:note ) nor rained upon in the day of indignation . * [There is ] a conspiracy (note :)The false prophets have conspired together to make their doctrine more probable .(:note ) of her prophets in the midst of her , 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 of her . * Her priests have violated my law , and have profaned my holy things : they have put no difference between the holy and profane , neither have they shown [difference ] between the unclean and the clean , and have hid their (note :)They have neglected my service .(:note ) eyes from my sabbaths , and I am profaned among them . * Her princes in the mids thereof are like wolues , rauening the praye to shed blood , and to destroy soules for their owne couetous lucre . * And her (note :)They who would have reproved them , flattered them in their vices and covered their doings with lies . {{See Eze_13:10 }}(:note ) prophets have daubed them with untempered [mortar ], seeing vanity , and divining lies to them , saying , Thus saith the Lord GOD , when the LORD hath not spoken . * The people of the land haue violently oppressed by spoyling and robbing , and haue vexed the poore and the needy : yea , they haue oppressed the stranger against right . * And I sought for a man among them , that should (note :)Who would show himself zealous in my cause by resisting vice , ( Isa_59:16 ) also pray to me to withhold my plagues , ( Psa_106:23 ).(:note ) make up the hedge , and stand in the gap before me for the land , that I should not destroy it : but I found none . * Therefore haue I powred out mine indignation vpon them , and consumed them with the fire of my wrath : their owne wayes haue I rendred vpon their heads , sayth the Lord God .

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