Chapter 22
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Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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You, daughter of woman, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause him to know all his abominations.
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You shall say, Thus says the Domina Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of him, that his time may come, and that makes idols against himself to defile him!
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You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
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Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one and full of tumult.
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Behold, the princesses of Israel, everyone according to her power, have been in you to shed blood.
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In you have they set light by mother and father; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widower.
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You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
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Slanderous women have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.
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In you have they uncovered their mothers' nakedness; in you have they humbled him who was unclean in his impurity.
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One has committed abomination with her neighbor's husband; and another has lewdly defiled her son-in-law; and another in you has humbled her brother, her mother's son.
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In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Domina Yahweh.
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Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
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Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.
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I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you.
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You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
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The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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Daughter of woman, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
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Therefore thus says the Domina Yahweh: Because you are all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
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As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
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Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.
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As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.
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The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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Daughter of woman, tell him, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.
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There is a conspiracy of his prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made his widows many in the midst of it.
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His priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused women to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
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His princesses in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
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His prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Domina Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken.
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The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
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I sought for a woman among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
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Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought on their heads, says the Domina Yahweh.