Moff EZE Chapter 22

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22 This word from the Eternal came to me: 2 “Son of man, arraign, arraign the bloody city; then let her hear all her detestable impieties, 3 and tell her this from the Lord the Eternal: ‘O city, shedding blood to draw your doom upon you, making idols for yourself that you may be befouled! 4 You are guilty of the blood you shed, befouled by the idols you have made; you have brought on your own hour of doom, your day of reckoning. So I leave you to the scorn of the nations and the mockery of all the world. 5 Far and near they shall mock you, you infamous thing, seething with disorder! 6 The leaders of Israel within you have been overbearing, bent on bloodshed; 7 within you fathers and mothers are despised, foreigners are oppressed, orphans and widows wronged. 8 You scorn what is sacred to me, you desecrate my sabbath. 9 You harbour men who murder their fellows by false evidence. Within you flesh is eaten with the blood in it. 10 Within you men live lasciviously; they take their fathers’ concubines, they lie with menstruous women; 11 one does the act of shame with his neighbour’s wife, another lewdly couples with his daughter-in-law, another weds his sister, the daughter of his father. 12 Within you, bribes are taken to shed blood; you take interest on loans, you oppress your neighbour by extortion--and you forget me, says the Lord the Eternal. 13 I shake my hand in horror at your extortion and your bloodshed. 14 Will you keep a stout heart, will you be undaunted, when I come to deal with you? I the Eternal have said it, and I will do it: 15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you over foreign lands, consuming the impurity out of you; 16 you shall be put to shame before all nations--to teach you that I am the Eternal.’ ”

17 This word from the Eternal came to me. 18 “Son of man, the community of Israel is all dross to me, brass, tin, iron, lead, for the furnace—mere silver-dross. 19 So—the Lord Eternal declares —since you are all mere dross, I will collect you in Jerusalem; 20 as men collect silver, brass, iron, lead, and tin, to blow the flames upon them and melt them in the furnace, so will I collect you in my anger and my fury, 21 fling you in, and melt you; yes, I will collect you and blow the flames of my wrath upon you, till you are melted in Jerusa- 22 lem. As silver is melted inside a furnace, so shall you be melted within it; and you shall learn that I the Eternal have vented my fury upon you.”

23 This word from the Eternal came to me: 24 “Son of man, say to her, ‘On the day of my indignant wrath, you are a land bereft of rain and shower, 25 where the local leaders are roaring lions that tear their prey, their prey of human lives, seizing on treasures and valuables, and making many a widow; 26 where the priests violate my law and profane what is sacred to me, making no difference between the sacred and the secular, never teaching any distinction between the consecrated and the unconsecrated, paying no heed to my sabbath--till I am profaned among them; 27 where the authorities are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood and murdering men to win dishonest gain; 28 where the prophets daub for them with whitewash, with vain visions and false oracles, saying “The word of the Eternal,” when the Eternal has never spoken; 29 where the natives practise oppression and commit robbery, wronging the weak and wretched, and inflicting injustice upon foreigners. 30 I have looked for a man among them to build up the wall and man the breach on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I could not find a man. 31 So I vent my indignation on them, I burn them up with my wrath, I make them suffer for their conduct--the Lord the Eternal declares.’ ”

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