Ezekiel 22
The Sins of
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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge,
wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt show her all her
abominations.
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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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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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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: Ex. 20.12 · Deut. 5.16 in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the
stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. Ex.
22.21, 22 · Deut. 24.17
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Thou hast despised mine holy things, and
hast profaned my sabbaths. Lev. 19.30 ; 26.2
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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.
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And one hath committed abomination with
his neighbor's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his
daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his
father's daughter. Lev. 18.7-20
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In thee have they taken gifts Ex.
23.8 · Deut.
16.19 to shed blood; thou hast taken usury Ex.
22.25 · Lev.
25.36, 37 · Deut. 23.19 and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors
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.
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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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And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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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.
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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 fury, and I will leave you there, and
melt you.
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Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you
in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst
thereof.
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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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And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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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 showed difference between the unclean and the clean, Lev. 10.10 and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned
among them.
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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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And her prophets have daubed them with
untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto
them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the
LORD hath not spoken.
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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.
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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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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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