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Ezekiel 22 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
3 And thou shall shew her all her abominations, & shalt say: Thus saith our Lord God: The city shedding blood in the midst of it, that her time may come: & that hath made idols against herself, that she might be polluted.
4 In thy blood, which is shed by thee, thou hast offended: and in thine idols, which thou hast made, thou art polluted: and thou hast made thy days to approach, and hast brought the time of thy years: therefore have I given thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all lands.
5 Those that are near, and that are far from thee, shall triumph over thee: thou filthy one, noble, great in destruction.
6 Behold the princes of Israel, every one in his arm, have been in thee, to shed blood.
7 Father and mother they have abused with contumelies in thee, the stranger they have calumniated in the midst of thee, the pupil and widow they have made sorrowful in thee.
8 My sanctuaries you have despised, and my sabbaths you have polluted.
9 Detracting men have been in thee to shed blood, and upon the mountains they have eaten in thee, they have wrought wickedness in the midst of thee.
10 The father's shame they have discovered in thee, the uncleanness of the menstruous woman they have humbled in thee.
11 And every one hath wrought abomination upon his neighbour's wife, and the father in law hath polluted his daughter in law wickedly, the brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in thee.
12 They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast taken usury and overplus, and didst calumniate thy neighbours covetously: and thou hast forgotten me, saith our Lord God.
25 A conspiracy of Prophets in the midst thereof: as a lion roaring, and ravening the prey, have they devoured souls, they have taken the riches and the price, her widows they have multiplied in the midst thereof.
26 Her Priests have contemned my law, and have polluted my sanctuaries: between a holy thing and profane they have put no difference: and between the polluted and the clean they understood not: and from my sabbaths they have turned away their eyes, and I was defiled in the midst of them.
27 Her princes in the midst of her, as wolves ravening the prey to shed blood, and to destroy souls, and to pursue gains covetously.
28 And her Prophets daubed them without tempering, seeing vain things, & divining lies to them, saying: Thus saith our Lord God: whereas our Lord hath not spoken.
29 The people of the land they oppressed by calumny, and took away violently: the needy and poor they afflicted, and the stranger they oppressed by calumny without judgement.
30 And I sought of them a man that might interpose an hedge, and stand opposite against me for the land, that I might not destroy it: and I found not.
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