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chapter 22
1
And
the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou
not judge the city of blood?
3 And thou shalt shew her all her abominations, and
shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God: This is the city that sheddeth blood in the
midst of her, that her time may come: and that hath made idols against herself,
to defile herself.
4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood which thou hast
shed: and thou art defiled in thy idols which thou hast made: and thou hast
made thy days to draw near, and hast brought on the time of thy years:
therefore have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all
countries.
5 Those that are near, and those that are far from
thee, shall triumph over thee: thou filthy one, infamous, great in destruction.
6 Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed
his arm in thee to shed blood.
7 They have abused father and mother in thee, they have
oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless
and widow in thee.
8 Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my
sabbaths.
9 Slanderers have been in thee to shed blood, and they
have eaten upon the mountains in thee, they have committed wickedness in the
midst of thee.
10 They have discovered the nakedness of their father
in thee, they have humbled the uncleanness of the menstruous woman in thee.
11 And every one hath committed abomination with his
neighbour's wife, and the father in law hath wickedly defiled his daughter in
law, 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 increase, and hast covetously oppressed thy neighbours:
and then hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
13 Behold, I have clapped my hands at thy covetousness,
which thou hast exercised and at the blood that hath been shed: In the midst of
thee.
14 Shall thy heart endure, or shall thy hands prevail
ill the days which I will bring upon thee: I the Lord have spoken, and will do
it.
15 And I will disperse thee in the nations, and will
scatter thee among the countries, and I will put an end to thy uncleanness in
thee.
16 And I will possess thee in the sight of the
Gentiles, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
18 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dress to
me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the
furnace: they are become the dress of silver.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you are
all turned into dress, therefore behold I will gather you together in the midst
of Jerusalem.
20 As they gather silver, and brass, and tin, and iron,
and lead in the midst of the furnace: that I may kindle a fire in it to melt
it: so will I gather you together in my fury and in my wrath, and will take my
rest, and I will melt you down.
21 And I will gather you together, and will burn you in
the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst thereof.
22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so
shall you be in the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when
I have poured out my indignation upon you.
23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24 Son of man, say to her: Thou art a land that is
unclean, and not rained upon in the day of wrath.
25 There is a conspiracy of prophets in the midst
thereof: like a lion that roareth and catcheth the prey, they have devoured
souls, they have taken riches and hire, they have made many widows in the midst
thereof.
26 Her priests have despised my law, and have defiled
my sanctuaries: they have put no difference between holy and profane: nor have
distinguished between the polluted and the clean: and they have turned away
their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.
27 Her princes in the midst of her, are like wolves
ravening the prey to shed blood, and to destroy souls, and to run after gains
through covetousness.
28 And her prophets have daubed them without tempering
the mortar, seeing vain things, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith
the Lord God: when the Lord hath not spoken.
29 The people of the land have used oppression, and
committed robbery: they afflicted the needy and poor, and they oppressed the
stranger by calumny without judgment.
30 And I sought among them for a man that might set up
a hedge, and stand in the gap before me in favour of the land, that I might not
destroy it: and I found none.
31 And I poured out my indignation upon them, in the
fire of my wrath I consumed them: I have rendered their way upon their own
head, saith the Lord God.
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