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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ezekiel 22 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/22.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/22-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Ezekiel 22</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/21.htm" title="Ezekiel 21">◄</a> Ezekiel 22 <a href="../ezekiel/23.htm" title="Ezekiel 23">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/22-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Sins of Jerusalem<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the city of bloods, and make her to know all her abominations? <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And say, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city poured out blood in the midst of her, for her time to come; and she made blocks for herself to be defiled. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In thy blood which thou didst pour out thou went guilty; and by thy blocks which thou didst make thou wert defiled; and thou wilt cause thy days to draw near, and thou wilt come even to thy years: for this, I gave thee a reproach to the nations, and a derision to all the lands. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Those being near and those being far off from thee will scoff at thee; thou wert defiled of name and much in consternation.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Behold, the princes of Israel they were a man to his arm to pour out blood in thee. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They made light of father and mother in thee: they did with violence to the stranger in the midst of thee: they oppressed the orphan and the widow in thee. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Thou didst despise my holy place, and thou didst profane my Sabbaths. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Men of slander were in thee to pour forth blood: and they ate upon the mountains in thee: they did wickedness in the midst of thee. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Thy father's nakedness was uncovered in thee: they humbled her set apart for uncleanness in thee. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And a man did abomination with his neighbor's wife; and a man defiled his daughter-in-law in wickedness; and a man humbled his sister, his father's daughter, in thee. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They took a gift in thee to pour out blood; thou tookest usury and interest, and thou wilt plunder thy neighbors by violence, and thou didst forget me, says the Lord Jehovah.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And behold, I struck my hand at thy plunder which thou madest, and at thy blood which was in the midst of thee. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Will thy heart stand, or will thine hands be strong for the day which I do with thee? I Jehovah spoke, and I did. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And I scattered thee in the nations, and I dispersed thee in the lands, and I consumed thy uncleanness out of thee. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And thou didst inherit in thee before the eyes of the nations, and thou knewest that I am Jehovah.<p> <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">The Refining Furnace<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Son of man, the house of Israel became to me for dross: all they brass and alloy, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they were drosses of silver. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: because all of them were for drosses, for this, behold me gathering you into the midst of Jerusalem. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The gathering silver and brass and iron and lead and alloy to the midst of the furnace to blow the fire upon it, to melt; so will I gather in mine anger and in my wrath, and I put down and melted you. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And I gathered you and blew upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye were melted in her midst. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>As silver being melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in her midst; And ye knew that I Jehovah poured out my wrath upon you.<p> <A name="24"></a><p class="hdg">Israel’s Wicked Leaders<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Son of man, say to her, Thou a land not being cleansed; it was not rained upon in the day of anger. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>A conspiracy of her prophets in her midst as a roaring lion rending the prey; they consumed the soul; they will take the wealth and the precious thing; they multiplied her widows in her midst. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Her priests did violence to my law, and they will profane my holy place: between the holy to the profane they separated not, and they did not make known between the unclean to the clean, and from my Sabbath they hid their eyes, and I shall be profaned in the midst of them. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Her chiefs in her midst as wolves rending the prey, to pour out blood, to destroy souls, for the sake of plundering plunder. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And her prophets plastered plaster upon them, seeing vanity, and divining to them falsehood, saying Thus said the Lord Jehovah; and Jehovah spoke not. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>The people of the land oppressed with violence and stripped off robbery, and oppressed the poor and needy, and did violence to the stranger without judgment. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And I sought from them a man to wall in the wall, and to stand in the breach before my face for the land, not to destroy it: and I found not. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/22-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>I will pour out my wrath upon them; I consumed them in the fire of mine anger: I gave their way upon their head, says the Lord Jehovah.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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