<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1021293">Ezekiel</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1021827">Chapter 22</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1021794">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1021859">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>The Sins of Judah and Israel and Prophecies of Destruction</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021828">1</a>. MOREOVER the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021829">2</a>. Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city?  yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021830">3</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021831">4</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021832">5</a>. Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021833">6</a>. Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021834">7</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021835">8</a>. Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021836">9</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021837">10</a>. In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021838">11</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021839">12</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021840">13</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021841">14</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021842">15</a>. And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021843">16</a>. And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021844">17</a>. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021845">18</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021846">19</a>. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021847">20</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021848">21</a>. Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021849">22</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021850">23</a>. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021851">24</a>. Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021852">25</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021853">26</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021854">27</a>. Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021855">28</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021856">29</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021857">30</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1021858">31</a>. 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.</li>
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