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