EZEKIEL 22 : 1 – 31 | Real MonEy Studio

VERSE 1

Eze:22:1: Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

VERSE 2

Eze:22:2: Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.

VERSE 3

Eze:22:3: 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.

VERSE 4

Eze:22:4: 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.

VERSE 5

Eze:22:5: Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.

VERSE 6

Eze:22:6: Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

VERSE 8

Eze:22:8: Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

VERSE 9

Eze:22:9: 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.

VERSE 10

Eze:22:10: In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

VERSE 11

Eze:22:11: 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.

VERSE 12

Eze:22:12: 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.

VERSE 13

Eze:22:13: 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.

VERSE 14

Eze:22:14: 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.

VERSE 15

Eze:22:15: And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

VERSE 16

Eze:22:16: And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

VERSE 17

Eze:22:17: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

VERSE 18

Eze:22:18: 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.

VERSE 19

Eze:22:19: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

VERSE 20

Eze:22:20: 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.

VERSE 21

Eze:22:21: Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.

VERSE 22

Eze:22:22: 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.

VERSE 23

Eze:22:23: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

VERSE 24

Eze:22:24: Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

Eze:22:25: 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.

VERSE 26

Eze:22:26: 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.

VERSE 27

Eze:22:27: Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

VERSE 28

Eze:22:28: 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.

VERSE 29

Eze:22:29: 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.

VERSE 30

Eze:22:30: 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.

VERSE 31

Eze:22:31: 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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EZEKIEL 22 : 1 – 31