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Ezekiel Watches a Refiner Melt Metal in a Furnace
by emmanuel_higgins
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Ezekiel 22:17
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Moreover the word
of the
L
ORD
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
G
OD
, 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
even
unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
5
Those that be
near, and
those that be
far from thee, shall mock thee,
which art
infamous
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
G
OD
.
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
L
ORD
have spoken
it
, and will do
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
am
the
L
ORD
.
And the word of the
L
ORD
came unto me, saying,
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.
19
Therefore thus saith the Lord
G
OD
; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
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.
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
L
ORD
have poured out my fury upon you.
23
And the word of the
L
ORD
came unto me, saying,
24
Son of man, say unto her, Thou
art
the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
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.
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.
27
Her princes in the midst thereof
are
like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood,
and
to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
28
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered
morter
, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord
G
OD
, when the
L
ORD
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
G
OD
.
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