AB - Ezekiel - 22

22:1  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

22:2  And you, son of man, will you judge the bloody city? Yea, declare to her all her iniquities.

22:3  And you shall say, Thus says the Lord God: O city that sheds blood in the midst of her, so that her time should come, and that forms devices against herself, to defile herself;

22:4  in their blood which you have shed, you have transgressed; and in your devices which you have formed, you have polluted yourself; and you have brought near your days, and have brought on the time of your years; therefore have I made you a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all the countries,

22:5  to those near you, and to those far away; and they shall mock you, you that are notoriously unclean, and abundant in iniquities.

22:6  Behold, the princes of the house of Israel have conspired in you each one with his kindred, that they might shed blood.

22:7  In you they have reviled father and mother; and in you they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger; they have oppressed the orphan and widow.

22:8  And they have set at nought My holy things, and in you they have profaned My Sabbaths.

22:9  There are robbers in you, to shed blood in you; and in you they have eaten upon the mountains; they have wrought ungodliness in the midst of you.

22:10  In you they have uncovered the father's shame; and in you they have humbled her that was set apart for uncleanness.

22:11  They have dealt unlawfully each one with his neighbor's wife; and each one in ungodliness has defiled his daughter-in-law: and in you they have humbled each one his sister, the daughter of his father.

22:12  In you they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in you interest and usurious increase; and by oppression you have brought your wickedness to the full, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord.

22:13  And if I shall smite My hand at your iniquities which you have accomplished, which you have wrought, and at your blood that has been shed in the midst of you,

22:14  shall your heart endure? Shall your hands be strong in the days which I bring upon you? I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

22:15  And I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you in the countries, and your uncleanness shall be removed out of you.

22:16  And I will give heritages in you in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

22:17  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

22:18  Son of man, behold, the house of Israel has become to Me as it were mixed with brass, and iron, and tin, and lead; they are mixed up in the midst of the silver.

22:19  Therefore say, Thus says the Lord God: Because you have become one mixture, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

22:20  As silver, brass, iron, tin, and lead are gathered into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire into it, that they may be melted: so will I take you in My wrath, and I will gather and melt you.

22:21  And I will blow upon you in the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst thereof.

22:22  As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst thereof; and you shall know that I the Lord have poured out My wrath upon you.

22:23  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

22:24  Son of man, say to her: You are the land that is not rained upon, neither has rain come upon you in the day of wrath;

22:25  whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and your widows are multiplied in the midst of you.

22:26  Her priests also have set at nought My law, and profaned My holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.

22:27  Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain.

22:28  And her prophets that daub them shall fall, that see vanities, that prophesy falsehoods, saying, Thus says the Lord, when the Lord has not spoken.

22:29  That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger.

22:30  And I sought from among them a man behaving uprightly, and standing before Me perfectly in the time of wrath, so that I should not utterly destroy her: but I found him not.

22:31  So I have poured out My wrath upon her in the fury of My anger, to accomplish it. I have recompensed their ways on their own heads, says the Lord God.