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Ezekiel, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {22:2} You,
son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause
her to know all her abominations. {22:3} You shall say, Thus says the
Lord GOD: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time
may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her! {22:4}
You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are
defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your
days to draw near, and have come even to your years: therefore have I
made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the
countries. {22:5} Those who are near, and those who are far from you,
shall mock you, you infamous one [and] full of tumult. {22:6} Behold,
the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in
you to shed blood. {22:7} In you have they set light by father and
mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the
foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
{22:8} You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my
Sabbaths. {22:9} Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in
you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have
committed lewdness. {22:10} In you have they uncovered their fathers'
nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her
impurity. {22:11} One has committed abomination with his neighbor's
wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another
in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter. {22:12} In you
have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and
increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by
oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD. {22:13} Behold,
therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have
made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you. {22:14}
Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I
shall deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken it, and will do it.
{22:15} I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through
the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you. {22:16}
You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; and
you shall know that I am the LORD. {22:17} The word of the LORD came
to me, saying, {22:18} Son of man, the house of Israel has become
dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the
midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver. {22:19} Therefore
thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore,
behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. {22:20} As they
gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of
the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you
in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
{22:21} Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my
wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst. {22:22} As silver is
melted in the midst of the furnace, so you will be melted in its
midst; and you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out my wrath on
you. {22:23} The word of the LORD came to me, saying, {22:24} Son of
man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in
the day of indignation. {22:25} There is a conspiracy of her prophets
in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have
devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made
her widows many in its midst. {22:26} Her priests have done violence
to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no
distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused
men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden
their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. {22:27} Her
princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood,
[and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain. {22:28} Her
prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions,
and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the
LORD has not spoken. {22:29} The people of the land have used
oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor
and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully. {22:30} I
sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand
in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I
found none. {22:31} Therefore have I poured out my indignation on
them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way
have I brought on their heads, says the Lord GOD.
{23:1} The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, {23:2} Son of
man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: {23:3} and
they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute in
their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled
the bosom of their virginity. {23:4} Their names were Oholah the
elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bore
sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and
Jerusalem Oholibah. {23:5} Oholah played the prostitute when she was
mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,
{23:6} who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them
desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. {23:7} She bestowed
her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and
on whoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself. {23:8}
Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt; for
in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her
virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her. {23:9}
Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand
of the Assyrians, on whom she doted. {23:10} These uncovered her
nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed
with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed
judgments on her. {23:11} Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she
more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her prostitution which
were more than the prostitution of her sister. {23:12} She doted on
the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors, clothed most
gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young
men. {23:13} I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.
{23:14} She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on
the wall, the images of the Kasdim portrayed with vermilion, {23:15}
dressed with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on their
heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the
Babylonians in Kasdim, the land of their birth. {23:16} As soon as she
saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Kasdimah.
{23:17} The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they
defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them,
and her soul was alienated from them. {23:18} So she uncovered her
prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated
from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister. {23:19} Yet
she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in
which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt. {23:20} She
doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and
whose issue is like the issue of horses. {23:21} Thus you called to
memory the lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by
the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth. {23:22} Therefore,
Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will raise up your lovers
against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them
against you on every side: {23:23} the Babylonians and all the Kasdim,
Pekod and Shoa and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them; desirable
young men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of
renown, all of them riding on horses. {23:24} They shall come against
you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples;
they shall set themselves against you with buckler and shield and
helmet all around; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they
shall judge you according to their judgments. {23:25} I will set my
jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury; they shall
take away your nose and your ears; and your residue shall fall by the
sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue
shall be devoured by the fire. {23:26} They shall also strip you of
your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels. {23:27} Thus will I
make your lewdness to cease from you, and your prostitution [brought]
from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to
them, nor remember Egypt any more. {23:28} For thus says the Lord GOD:
Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into
the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated; {23:29} and they
shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and
shall leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitution
shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution. {23:30}
These things shall be done to you, because you have played the
prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their
idols. {23:31} You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore
will I give her cup into your hand. {23:32} Thus says the Lord GOD:
You will drink of your sister's cup, which is deep and large; you will
be ridiculed and held in derision; it contains much. {23:33} You shall
be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment
and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria. {23:34} You shall
even drink it and drain it out, and you shall gnaw the broken pieces
of it, and shall tear your breasts; for I have spoken it, says the
Lord GOD. {23:35} Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have
forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear
your lewdness and your prostitution. {23:36} The LORD said moreover to
me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare to
them their abominations. {23:37} For they have committed adultery, and
blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed
adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me,
to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured. {23:38} Moreover
this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same
day, and have profaned my Sabbaths. {23:39} For when they had slain
their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my
sanctuary to profane it; and behold, thus have they done in the midst
of my house. {23:40} Furthermore you have sent for men who come from
far, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you
did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and decorate yourself with
ornaments, {23:41} and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared
before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil. {23:42} The voice
of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common
sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put
bracelets on their hands [twain], and beautiful crowns on their heads.
{23:43} Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they
play the prostitute with her, and she [with them]. {23:44} They went
in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went they in to Oholah
and to Oholibah, the lewd women. {23:45} Righteous men, they shall
judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of
women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in
their hands. {23:46} For thus says the Lord GOD: I will bring up a
company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth
and robbed. {23:47} The company shall stone them with stones, and
dispatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their
daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. {23:48} Thus will I
cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught
not to do after your lewdness. {23:49} They shall recompense your
lewdness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols; and you
shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
{24:1} Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth
[day] of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {24:2}
Son of man, write the name of the day, [even] of this same day: the
king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day. {24:3} Utter a
parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord
GOD, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:
{24:4} gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh,
and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. {24:5} Take the
choice of the flock, and also a pile [of wood] for the bones under
[the caldron]; make it boil well; yes, let its bones be boiled in its
midst. {24:6} Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody
city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone
out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen on it.
{24:7} For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare
rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust. {24:8}
That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her
blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered. {24:9}
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will
make the pile great. {24:10} Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil
well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.
{24:11} Then set it empty on its coals, that it may be hot, and its
brass may burn, and that its filthiness may be molten in it, that its
rust may be consumed. {24:12} She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet
her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go
forth] by fire. {24:13} In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have
cleansed you and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from
your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to
rest. {24:14} I, the LORD, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will
do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I
repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall
they judge you, says the Lord GOD. {24:15} Also the word of the LORD
came to me, saying, {24:16} Son of man, behold, I will take away from
you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn
nor weep, neither shall your tears run down. {24:17} Sigh, but not
aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and
put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat
men's bread. {24:18} So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at
even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
{24:19} The people said to me, Won't you tell us what these things are
to us, that you do so? {24:20} Then I said to them, The word of the
LORD came to me, saying, {24:21} Speak to the house of Israel, Thus
says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of
your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities;
and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall
by the sword. {24:22} You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover
your lips, nor eat the bread of men. {24:23} Your tires shall be on
your heads, and your shoes on your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep;
but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward
another. {24:24} Thus Ezekiel shall be a sign to you; according to all
that he has done, you will do. When this comes, then you will know
that I am the Lord GOD. {24:25} You, son of man, shall it not be in
the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory,
the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart,
their sons and their daughters, {24:26} that in that day he who
escapes shall come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?
{24:27} In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped,
and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so you will be a sign to
them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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