Ezekiel 22:21-31 ▼

21 And I will gather you⁺ and will blow on you⁺ with the fire of My wrath, and you⁺ will be melted in its midst.

22 As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so will you⁺ be melted in its midst. And you⁺ will know that I, YHWH, have poured out My fury upon you⁺.’”

23 And the word of YHWH came to me, saying,

24 “Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that is not cleansed, nor is rain on her, in the day of anger.’

25 The conspiracy of her princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured the soul; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.

26 Her priests have done violence to My law, and have profaned My holy things; between the holy and the profane they do not separate, and between the unclean and the clean they do not discern; and from My Sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, and I am profaned in their midst!

27 Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, and to break off dishonest gain.

28 And her prophets have covered them with whitewash, seeing falsehood and divining for them a lie, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord YHWH,’ and YHWH has not spoken.

29 The people of the land with oppression have oppressed, and with robbery have robbed, and the poor and the needy they have mistreated; and the sojourner they oppress without justice.

30 And I sought from them a man walling up the wall and standing in the breach before Me, on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it, and no one did I find.

31 And I have poured out on them My anger; with the fire of My wrath I have consumed them; their deeds have I recompensed on their own heads! An utterance of the Lord YHWH.”