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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The word of the LORD came to me: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Son of man, will you judge her? Will you judge this city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her detestable practices |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood in her midst and defiles herself by making idols, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"'See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9In you are slanderers who are bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10In you are those who dishonor their father's bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor's wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father's daughter. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12In you are people who accept bribes to shed blood; you take interest and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"'I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16When you have been defiled in the eyes of the nations, you will know that I am the LORD.'" |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then the word of the LORD came to me: |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"Son of man, the people of Israel have become dross to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace. They are but the dross of silver. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'Because you have all become dross, I will gather you into Jerusalem. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I will gather you and I will blow on you with my fiery wrath, and you will be melted inside her. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the LORD have poured out my wrath on you.'" |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Again the word of the LORD came to me: |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"Son of man, say to the land, 'You are a land that has not been cleansed or rained on in the day of wrath.' |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25There is a conspiracy of her princes within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says'--when the LORD has not spoken. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30"I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD." |
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