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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This message came to me from the LORD: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Now, Son of Man, will you truly judge that blood-stained city? Then make her aware of all of her detestable practices. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"You are to say, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "The city keeps on shedding blood within her, hastening her time to be judged. She crafts idols that defile her. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"'"You're guilty because of the blood that you've shed. You were defiled by the idols that you've made. You've caused your judgment day to draw near and have even come to the end of your life. Therefore, I've made you an object of derision among the nations and to other lands. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Those who are both near and far away from you will scoff at you, because your reputation will be infamous and full of turmoil. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"'"Watch out! Each of the princes of Israel has misused his authority to shed blood. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They've treated mothers and fathers among you with contempt. They've oppressed the foreigner among you. They've maltreated the orphan and the widow among you. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"'"You have despised my sacred things and profaned my Sabbaths. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Slanderous men live among you, intent on shedding blood. They've eaten at the top of mountain shrines. They've crafted plans to do evil things among you. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They've revealed the nakedness of their father in your midst. They've humiliated those among you who were unclean due to their impurity. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11One of you commits detestable practices with his neighbor's wife. Another sexually defiles his daughter-in-law. Another humiliates his sister, his own father's daughter. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12They take bribes among you to shed blood. You've taken usury and exacted interest. You've gained control over your neighbor through extortion. And you've forgotten me," declares the Lord GOD. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Watch out! I'm vehemently angry about the unjust gains that you've earned, and about the blood that has been shed among you. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Can your heart stand up to this? Can your hands remain strong when I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken and will fulfill this. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15I'm going to disperse you among the nations and scatter you to other lands. I'm going to put an end to your uncleanness. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16When you've been defiled in the sight of the nations, then you'll know that I am the LORD."'" |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17This message came to me from the LORD: |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"Son of Man, Israel has become like dross to me. All of them are like remnants of bronze, tin, iron, and lead in a furnace—the dross left over from smelting silver. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says, 'Because all of you have become dross, watch out! I'm going to gather all of you at the center of Jerusalem, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20just like a smelter gathers all the silver, bronze, lead, and tin to the center of a furnace and injects fire in order to melt it, I'm going to gather you in my anger and rage, make you settle down—and then I'm going to melt you down. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Indeed, I'm going to gather you together and exhale the fire of my fury, and then you'll be melted from the inside out |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22like melting silver at the center of a furnace. When you've been melted from the center out, then you'll know that I am the LORD. I'll pour out my anger on you.'" |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23This message came to me from the LORD: |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"Son of Man, tell her, 'You're a land that hasn't been purified, one that hasn't been rained on in the day of indignation. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25There's a conspiracy of prophets within her, and like a roaring lion tearing its prey, they've devoured people, and confiscated treasures, and taken precious things. They've added to the population of widows within her. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Her priests have violated my Law and profaned my sacred things. They didn't differentiate between what's sacred and what's common. They didn't instruct others to discern clean from unclean things. They refused to keep my Sabbaths. "'I'm constantly being profaned among them. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Her princes within her are like wolves tearing their prey apart. They shed blood, destroying souls, and make unjust gain. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"'Her prophets whitewashed all of these things through false visions and lying divinations. They kept on saying, "This is what the Lord GOD says…", when the LORD has not spoken. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29The people of the land were vigorously oppressive and took possession of plunder by violence. They've afflicted the poor and the needy and unjustly treated the foreigner. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30I sought for a man among them to build the wall and stand in the breach in my presence on behalf of the land so that it won't be destroyed, but I found no one, |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31so I poured my indignation over them. With my fierce anger, I've consumed them. I brought the consequences of their behavior upon them,' declares the Lord GOD." |
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