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then cause her to know all her abominations. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: O city that sheddest blood in the midst of thee, that thy time may come, and that makest idols unto thyself to defile thee; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed, and art defiled 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 nations, and a mocking to all the countries! <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, thou defiled of name and full of tumult. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his might, have been in thee to shed blood. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Thou hast despised My holy things, and hast profaned My sabbaths. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In thee have been talebearers to shed blood; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>In thee have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her impurity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And each hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and each hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and each in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten Me, saith the Lord GOD. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Behold, therefore, I have smitten My hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the countries; and I will consume thy filthiness out of thee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And thou shalt be profaned in thyself, in the sight of the nations; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>‘Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto Me; all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because ye are all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>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 cast you in, and melt you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you with the fire of My wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>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.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>‘Son of man, say unto her: Thou art a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls, they take treasure and precious things, they have made her widows many in the midst thereof. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Her priests have done violence to My law, and have profaned My holy things; they have put no difference between the holy and the common, neither have they taught difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey: to shed blood, and to destroy souls, so as to get dishonest gain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And her prophets have daubed for them with whited plaster, seeing falsehood, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy, and have oppressed the stranger unlawfully. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the breach before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Therefore have I poured out Mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; their own way have I brought upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.’</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ezekiel/21.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezekiel 21"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 21" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ezekiel/23.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ezekiel 23"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 23" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/ezekiel/22-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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