English Bible
Ezekiel 22
Big screen- 1Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
- 2Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? yea, you shall show her all her abominations.
- 3Then say you, Thus says the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself.
- 4You are become guilty in your blood that you have shed; and have defiled yourself in yours idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even unto your years: therefore have I made you a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
- 5Those that be near, and those that be far from you, shall mock you, which are ill repute and much vexed.
- 6Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in you to their power to shed blood.
- 7In you have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
- 8You have despised mine holy things, and have profaned my sabbaths.
- 9In you are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in you they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness.
- 10In you have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in you have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
- 11And one has committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
- 12In you have they taken gifts to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbours by extortion, and have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.
- 13Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
- 14Can yours heart endure, or can yours hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
- 15And I will scatter you among the heathen, and disperse you in the countries, and will consume your filthiness out of you.
- 16And you shall take yours inheritance in yourself in the sight of the heathen, and you shall 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 dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
- 19Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because all of you are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
- 20As 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.
- 21Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and all of you shall be melted in the midst thereof.
- 22As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall all of you be melted in the midst thereof; and all of you shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.
- 23And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
- 24Son of man, say unto her, You are the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
- 25There 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.
- 26Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
- 27Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
- 28And her prophets have daubed them with plaster, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken.
- 29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
- 30And 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.
- 31Therefore 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, says the Lord GOD.