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{Ezekiel 22:1} Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:2} Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:3} 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:4} 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:5} [Those that be] near, and [those that be] far from thee, shall mock thee, [which art] infamous [and] much vexed. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:6} Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:7} In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:8} Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:9} 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:10} In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:11} And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:12} In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:13} 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:14} 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. ] ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:15} And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:16} And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:17} And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:18} 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:19} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:20} [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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:21} Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:22} 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:23} And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:24} Son of man, say unto her, Thou [art] the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:25} [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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:26} 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 shewed [difference] between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:27} Her princes in the midst thereof [are] like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:28} And her prophets have daubed them with untempered [morter,] seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:29} 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:30} 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. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Ezekiel 22:31} 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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