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== Yechezkel (Book of Ezekiel), Chapter 22 ==

<named id="1"/>1 Moreover the word of HaShem came unto me, saying:

<named id="2"/>2 'Now, thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.

<named id="3"/>3 And thou shalt say: Thus saith the L-rd GOD: O city that sheddest blood in the midst of thee, that thy time may come, and that makest idols unto thyself to defile thee;

<named id="4"/>4 thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed, and art defiled in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years; therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the nations, and a mocking to all the countries!

<named id="5"/>5 Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, thou defiled of name and full of tumult.

<named id="6"/>6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his might, have been in thee to shed blood.

<named id="7"/>7 In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

<named id="8"/>8 Thou hast despised My holy things, and hast profaned My sabbaths.

<named id="9"/>9 In thee have been talebearers to shed blood; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.

<named id="10"/>10 In thee have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her impurity.

<named id="11"/>11 And each hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and each hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and each in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

<named id="12"/>12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten Me, saith the L-rd GOD.

<named id="13"/>13 Behold, therefore, I have smitten My hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.

<named id="14"/>14 Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I HaShem have spoken it, and will do it.

<named id="15"/>15 And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the countries; and I will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

<named id="16"/>16 And thou shalt be profaned in thyself, in the sight of the nations; and thou shalt know that I am HaShem.'

<named id="17"/>17 And the word of HaShem came unto me, saying:

<named id="18"/>18 'Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto Me; all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.

<named id="19"/>19 Therefore thus saith the L-rd GOD: Because ye are all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

<named id="20"/>20 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in Mine anger and in My fury, and I will cast you in, and melt you.

<named id="21"/>21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you with the fire of My wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.

<named id="22"/>22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I HaShem have poured out My fury upon you.'

<named id="23"/>23 And the word of HaShem came unto me, saying:

<named id="24"/>24 'Son of man, say unto her: Thou art a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

<named id="25"/>25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls, they take treasure and precious things, they have made her widows many in the midst thereof.

<named id="26"/>26 Her priests have done violence to My law, and have profaned My holy things; they have put no difference between the holy and the common, neither have they taught difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

<named id="27"/>27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey: to shed blood, and to destroy souls, so as to get dishonest gain.

<named id="28"/>28 And her prophets have daubed for them with whited plaster, seeing falsehood, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the L-rd GOD, when HaShem hath not spoken.

<named id="29"/>29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy, and have oppressed the stranger unlawfully.

<named id="30"/>30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the breach before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.

<named id="31"/>31 Therefore have I poured out Mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; their own way have I brought upon their heads, saith the L-rd GOD.'

== See also ==
* [[Yechezkel 21|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Yechezkel 22 Commentaries]]
* [[Yechezkel 23|Next Chapter]]

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