Ezekiel:22

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ylt @Ezekiel:22:1 @And there is a word of Jehovah unto me , saying , ylt @Ezekiel:22:2 @'And thou , son of man , dost thou judge ? dost thou judge the city of blood ? then thou hast caused it to know all its abominations , ylt @Ezekiel:22:3 @and thou hast said : Thus said the Lord Jehovah : The city is shedding blood in its midst , For the coming in of its time , And it hath made idols on it for defilement . ylt @Ezekiel:22:4 @By thy blood that thou hast shed thou hast been guilty , And by thine idols that thou hast made thou hast been defiled , And thou causest thy days to draw near , And art come in unto thine years , Therefore I have given thee a reproach to nations , And a derision to all the lands . ylt @Ezekiel:22:5 @The near and the far-off from thee scoff at thee , O defiled of name -- abounding in trouble . ylt @Ezekiel:22:6 @Lo , princes of Israel -- each according to his arm Have been in thee to shed blood . ylt @Ezekiel:22:7 @Father and mother made light of in thee , To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst , Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee . ylt @Ezekiel:22:8 @My holy things thou hast despised , And My sabbaths thou hast polluted . ylt @Ezekiel:22:9 @Men of slander have been in thee to shed blood , And on the mountains they have eaten in thee , Wickedness they have done in thy midst . ylt @Ezekiel:22:10 @The nakedness of a father hath one uncovered in thee , The defiled of impurity they humbled in thee . ylt @Ezekiel:22:11 @And each with the wife of his neighbour hath done abomination , And each his daughter-in-law hath defiled through wickedness , And each his sister , his father 's daughter , hath humbled in thee . ylt @Ezekiel:22:12 @A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood , Usury and increase thou hast taken , And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression , And Me thou hast forgotten , An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah ! ylt @Ezekiel:22:13 @And lo , I have smitten My hand , Because of thy dishonest gain that thou hast gained , And for thy blood that hath been in thy midst . ylt @Ezekiel:22:14 @Doth thy heart stand -- are thy hands strong , For the days that I am dealing with thee ? I , Jehovah , have spoken and have done [it ]. ylt @Ezekiel:22:15 @And I have scattered thee among nations , And have spread thee out among lands , And consumed thy uncleanness out of thee . ylt @Ezekiel:22:16 @And thou hast been polluted in thyself Before the eyes of nations , And thou hast known that I [am ] Jehovah .' ylt @Ezekiel:22:17 @And there is a word of Jehovah unto me , saying , 'Son of man , ylt @Ezekiel:22:18 @The house of Israel hath been to Me for dross , All of them [are ] brass , and tin , and iron , and lead , In the midst of a furnace -- dross hath silver been , ylt @Ezekiel:22:19 @Therefore , thus said the Lord Jehovah : Because of your all becoming dross , Therefore , lo , I am gathering you unto the midst of Jerusalem , ylt @Ezekiel:22:20 @A gathering of silver , and brass , and iron , and lead , and tin , Unto the midst of a furnace -- to blow on it fire , to melt it , So do I gather in Mine anger and in My fury , And I have let rest , and have melted you . ylt @Ezekiel:22:21 @And I have heaped you up , And blown on you in the fire of My wrath , And ye have been melted in its midst . ylt @Ezekiel:22:22 @As the melting of silver in the midst of a furnace , So are ye melted in its midst , And ye have known that I , Jehovah , I have poured out My fury upon you .' ylt @Ezekiel:22:23 @And there is a word of Jehovah unto me , saying : ylt @Ezekiel:22:24 @'Son of man , say to it , Thou [art ] a land , It [is ] not cleansed nor rained on in a day of indignation . ylt @Ezekiel:22:25 @A conspiracy of its prophets [is ] in its midst , as a roaring lion tearing prey ; The soul they have devoured , Wealth and glory they have taken , Its widows have multiplied in its midst . ylt @Ezekiel:22:26 @Its priests have wronged My law , And they pollute My holy things , Between holy and common they have not made separation , And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known , And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes , And I am pierced in their midst . ylt @Ezekiel:22:27 @Its princes in its midst [are ] as wolves , Tearing prey , to shed blood , to destroy souls , For the sake of gaining dishonest gain . ylt @Ezekiel:22:28 @And its prophets have daubed for them with chalk , Seeing a vain thing , and divining for them a lie , Saying , 'Thus said the Lord Jehovah :' And Jehovah hath not spoken . ylt @Ezekiel:22:29 @The people of the land have used oppression , And have taken plunder violently away , And humble and needy have oppressed , And the sojourner oppressed -- without judgment . ylt @Ezekiel:22:30 @And I seek of them a man making a fence , And standing in the breach before Me , In behalf of the land -- not to destroy it , And I have not found . ylt @Ezekiel:22:31 @And I pour out on them mine indignation , By fire of My wrath I have consumed them , Their way on their own head I have put , An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah !'

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