1: Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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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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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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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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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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6: Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their
power to shed blood. |
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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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8: Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my
sabbaths. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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17: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
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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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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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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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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: 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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23: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. |