Ezekiel 22

CHAPTER 22

The Sins of Jerusalem

1And [³came ¹the word ²of the lord] to me, saying, 2And you, O son of man, shall you judge the city   of blood? Yes, hold her forth for an example for all   her lawless deeds! 3And you shall say, Thus says the Lord the lord; O city shedding blood in the midst of herself,   [²should come ¹so that her time], and prepares thoughts against herself,   to defile herself. 4In   your blood which you shed, you have fallen; and in   your ideas which you produced you defiled yourself; and [²drew near   ¹your days], and brought on the time of your years. On account of this I have given you for scorning by the nations, and for mocking by all the regions, 5the ones near to you, and the ones far at a distance from you. And they shall mock against you, [³unclean ¹O one ²famously], and great in   lawless deeds. 6Behold, the ones guiding the house of Israel each [²with   ³his relatives ¹blends together] against you, so as to shed blood. 7[²father ³and ⁴mother ¹They spoke evil of] among you. And against the foreigner they behaved with injustice among you. Orphan and widow they tyrannize among you. 8And   my holy things  they treat with contempt, and   my Sabbaths they profaned among you. 9The men were robbers among you, so that they shed blood among you. And [²upon ³the ⁴mountains to idols  ¹they were eating] among you. [²unholiness ¹They committed] in your midst. 10[²the shame ³of the father ¹They uncovered] among you; and [³in her  ⁴uncleannesses ²the woman sitting apart ¹they abased] among you. 11Each with the wife   of his neighbor acted lawlessly; and each   [²his daughter-in-law ¹defiled] in impiety; and each   [²his sister ³the daughter   ⁴of his father ¹abased] among you. 12[²bribes ¹They took] among you so that they should shed blood. Interest and usury they received among you; and you completed the consummation of your evil   by tyranny; [³me ¹and ²you forgot], says Adonai the lord. 13And if I should strike my hand against my hand against the evils which you have been exhausted in the things which you did, and against the blood shed by you   being in your midst, 14shall [²stand   ¹your heart], no. Shall [²hold   ¹your hands] in the days in which I do unto you, no. I the lord  have spoken, and I will do it. 15And I will disperse you among the nations, and I will scatter you among the regions, and [²shall vanish   ¹your uncleanness] from you. 16And I will allot among you before the eyes of the nations, and you shall know that I am  the lord.

Israel Cast into a Furnace

17And [³came ¹the word ²of the lord] to me, saying, 18O son of man, behold, [⁴has become ⁵to me ¹the ²house ³of Israel] an intermingling of all brass, and iron, and tin, and lead; [²in ³the midst ⁴of a furnace ⁵of silver ⁶being intermingled ¹they are]. 19On account of this, say! Thus says Adonai the lord; Because you became all for [²admixture ¹one], on account of this I will take you in the midst of Jerusalem. 20As [²is taken ¹silver], and brass, and iron, and tin, and lead in the midst of the furnace,   to blow [²into ³it ¹fire], for the casting in a furnace. So I will take you in   my anger, and in   my rage, and I will gather and cast you in a furnace. 21And I will blow upon you in the fire of my anger, and you shall be cast in a furnace in the midst of it. 22In which manner [²is cast in a furnace ¹silver] in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be cast in a furnace in the midst of it. And you shall realize that I the lord  poured out   my rage upon you.

Condemnation on the Land

23And [³came ¹the word ²of the lord] to me, saying, 24O son of man, say to her! You are the land, the land  not having rain, nor rain came upon you in the day of anger. 25Of whom the ones guiding in her midst are as [²lions ¹roaring ³seizing ⁵by force ⁴prey]; [²souls ¹devouring] by domination, and [²honor ¹taking]; and   your widows are multiplied in your midst. 26And   her priests annulled   my law, and they profaned   my holy things. Between holy and profane they distinguished not, and between unclean and the clean they distinguished not; and from   my Sabbaths they covered up   their eyes, and I was profaned in their midst. 27  Her rulers in her midst are as wolves seizing prey   to shed blood,   to destroy lives, so that their desire for wealth should overabound. 28And   her prophets anointing them shall fall seeing vanities, using [²oracles ¹lying], saying, Thus says Adonai the lord, but the lord  has not spoken. 29The people of the land are pressuring iniquity, and tearing in pieces the prey, [²the poor ³and ⁴needy ¹tyrannizing], and [⁵to ⁶the ⁷foreigner ¹not ²behaving ³with ⁴equity]. 30And I sought of them a man behaving rightly, and standing before my face soundly in the time of the anger, so as to not [²unto ³the end ¹wipe her away] -- but I did not find. 31And I poured out upon her   my rage, by the fire of my anger,   to complete it.   [²their ways ³unto ⁴their heads ¹I have imputed], says Adonai the Lord.