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Ezekiel

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1 More­over the word of the LORD came unto me, say­ing, 2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abom­i­na­tions. 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. 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. 5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art in­fa­mous and much vexed. 6 Be­hold, the princes of Is­rael, ev­ery one were in thee to their pow­er to shed blood. 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. 8 Thou hast de­spised mine holy things, and hast pro­faned my sab­baths. 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. 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, 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 there­of. 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.