Ezekiel 22

22Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ²Now, thou son of man, ^awilt thou ^||judge, wilt thou judge the ^†bbloody city? yea, thou shalt ^†bbshew her all her abominations. ³Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, ^cThe city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that ^dher time may come, and maketh idols against herself ^eto defile herself. ^4fThou art become guilty ^cin thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and ^dthou hast caused thy days to draw near, and ^gart come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee ^ha reproach unto the heathen, and ⁱa mocking to all countries. ⁵Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art ^†infamous and much vexed. ⁶Behold, ^lthe princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their ^†mpower ^cto shed blood. ⁷In thee ⁿhave they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they ^odealt by ^||poppression with the stranger: in thee ^pphave they ^qvexed the fatherless and the widow. ^8rThou hast despised mine holy things, and ^shast profaned my sabbaths. ⁹In thee are ^†tmen that carry tales ^cto shed blood: and in thee ^uthey eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee ^vthey commit lewdness. ¹⁰In thee ^whave they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled ^xher that was ^jset apart for pollution. ¹¹And ^||one ^yhath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and ^||another ^zhath ^||lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and ^||another in thee ^ahath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter. ¹²In thee ^bhave they taken gifts ^bbto shed blood; ^cthou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by ^dextortion, and ^ehast forgotten me, saith the Lord God. ¹³Behold, therefore ^fI have smitten mine hand at ^gthy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at ^bbthy blood which hath been in the midst of thee. ^14hCan thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? ⁱI the Lord have spoken it, and will do it. ¹⁵And ^klI will scatter thee among the heathen, and ^kmdisperse thee in the countries, and ⁿwill consume thy filthiness out of thee. ¹⁶And thou ^||shalt ^otake thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, ^pand thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

¹⁷And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ¹⁸Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become ^qdross: all they are ^rbrass, and ^stin, and ^riron, and lead, ^tin the midst of the furnace; they are even ^uthe ^†dross of silver. ¹⁹Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye are all become ^qdross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. ^20†As they gather silver, and ^rbrass, and ^riron, and lead, and ^stin, ^tinto the midst of the furnace, ^vto blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you ^win mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. ²¹Yea, I will gather you, and ^vblow upon you ^xin the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. ²²As silver is melted ^tin the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the Lord ^yhave poured out my fury upon you.

²³And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ²⁴Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor ^zrained upon in the day of indignation. ²⁵There is a ^aconspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, ^blike a roaring lion ^cravening the prey; ^dthey have devoured souls; ^ethey have taken ^fthe treasure and ^gprecious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. ^26hHer priests ⁱhave ^†violated my law, and ⁱhave ^kprofaned mine holy things: ^lthey have put no difference between the holy and profane, ^lneither have they ^mshewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and ⁿhave hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and ^kI am profaned among them. ^27oHer princes in the midst thereof are like ^pwolves ^cravening the prey, ^oto shed blood, and to destroy souls, ^oqto get dishonest gain. ²⁸And ^rher prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, ^sseeing vanity, and ^sdivining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken. ²⁹The people of the land have used ^||oppression, and ^uexercised robbery, and ^uhave vexed the poor and needy: yea, ^tthey have oppressed the stranger ^†wrongfully. ³⁰And ^vI sought for a man among them, that should ^wxmake up the hedge, and ^wstand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. ³¹Therefore ^yhave I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them ^zwith the fire of my wrath: ^atheir own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God.