Ezekiel - Chapter 22 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
  • 2. Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
  • 3. 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.
  • 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 {cf15I even} unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
  • 5. {cf15I Those that be} near, and {cf15I those that be} far from thee, shall mock thee, {cf15I which art} infamous {cf15I and} much vexed.
  • 6. Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
  • 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.
  • 8. Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
  • 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.
  • 10. In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 {cf15I it}, and will do {cf15I it}.
  • 15. And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
  • 16. And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I {cf15I am} the LORD.
  • 17. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
  • 18. Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they {cf15I are} brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are {cf15I even} the dross of silver.
  • 19. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
  • 20. {cf15I 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 {cf15I it}; so will I gather {cf15I you} in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave {cf15I you there}, and melt you.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 23. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
  • 24. Son of man, say unto her, Thou {cf15I art} the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
  • 25. {cf15I 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.
  • 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 {cf15I difference} between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
  • 27. Her princes in the midst thereof {cf15I are} like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, {cf15I and} to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
  • 28. And her prophets have daubed them with untempered {cf15I morter}, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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