Ezekiel 22 — DBY
22Verse 1And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,Verse 2And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? Yea, cause her to know all her abominations,Verse 3and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A city that sheddeth blood in her midst, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.Verse 4Thou art become guilty by thy blood which thou hast shed, and hast defiled thyself with thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the nations, and a mocking unto all countries.Verse 5Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, who art infamous [and] full of tumult.Verse 6Behold, the princes of Israel have been in thee to shed blood, each according to his power.Verse 7In 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 vexed the fatherless and the widow.Verse 8Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.Verse 9In thee there have been slanderous men to shed blood; and in thee have they eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness;Verse 10in thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her separation.Verse 11And 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.Verse 12In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.Verse 13And behold, I have smitten mine hand at thine overreaching which thou hast done, and at thy bloodshed which hath been in the midst of thee.Verse 14Shall thy heart endure, shall thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I Jehovah have spoken, and will do [it].Verse 15And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.Verse 16And thou shalt be polluted through thyself in the sight of the nations, and thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah.Verse 17And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,Verse 18Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: they are all copper, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.Verse 19Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.Verse 20[As] they gather silver, and copper, 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 lay you on and melt you.Verse 21Yea, I will collect you, and blow upon you the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.Verse 22As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I Jehovah have poured out my fury upon you.Verse 23And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,Verse 24Son of man, say unto her, Thou art a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.Verse 25There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of her like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they devour souls; they take away treasure and precious things; they increase her widows in the midst of her;Verse 26her priests do violence to my law, and profane my holy things: they put no difference between the holy and profane, neither do they make known [the difference] between the unclean and the clean, and they hide their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.Verse 27Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.Verse 28And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered [mortar], seeing vanity and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah! and Jehovah hath not spoken.Verse 29The people of the land use oppression and practise robbery; and they vex the poor and needy, and oppress the stranger wrongfully.Verse 30And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the fence, and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.Verse 31And I will pour out mine indignation upon them; I will consume them in the fire of my wrath: their own way will I recompense upon their head, saith the Lord Jehovah.