Moreover
the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
02 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt
thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew
her all her abominations.
03 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.
04 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.
05 Those that be near, and those that be far from
thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and
much vexed.
06 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were
in thee to their power to shed blood.
07 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.
08 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast
profaned my sabbaths.
09 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.
10 In thee have they discovered their fathers'
nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was
set apart for pollution.
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.
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.
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.
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.
15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and
disperse thee in the countries, and will consume
thy filthiness out of thee.
16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in
thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou
shalt know that I am the Lord.
17 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
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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.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye
are all become dross, behold, therefore I will
gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
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.
21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in
the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in
the midst therof.
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.
23 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land
that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day
of indignation.
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.
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.
27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like
wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to
destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
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.
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.
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.
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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