| 22:1
| Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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| 22:2
| Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city?
yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 22:5
| Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee,
which art infamous and much vexed.
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| 22:6
| Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to
shed blood.
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| 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.
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| 22:8
| Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
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| 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.
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| 22:10
| In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they
humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 22:15
| 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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| 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.
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| 22:17
| And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 22:23
| And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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| 22:24
| 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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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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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