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Father and mother
1are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner
2suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow
3are wronged in you.
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4You have despised my holy things and
5profaned my Sabbaths.
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6There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you
7who eat on the mountains;
8they commit lewdness in your midst.
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In you
9men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity.
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10One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife;
11another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law;
12another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter.
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In you
13they take bribes to shed blood;
14you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but
15me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
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"Behold,
16I strike my hand at
17the dishonest gain that you have made, and at
18the blood that has been in your midst.
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19Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you?
20I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.
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21I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and
22I will consume your uncleanness out of you.
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And
23you shall be profaned by your own doing
24in the sight of the nations,
25and you shall know that I am the LORD."
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And the word of the LORD came to me:
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26"Son of man, the house of Israel has become
27dross to me; all of them are
28bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are
29dross of silver.
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
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As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace,
30to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you
31in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.
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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 a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the LORD;
32I have poured out my wrath upon you."
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And the word of the LORD came to me:
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"Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is
33not cleansed
34or rained upon in the day of indignation.
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35The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is
36like a roaring lion
37tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.
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38Her priests
39have done violence to my law and
40have profaned my holy things.
41They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and
42they have disregarded my Sabbaths,
43so that I am profaned among them.
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44Her princes in her midst are like wolves
45tearing the prey,
46shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
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And
47her prophets have smeared whitewash for them,
48seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, 'Thus says the Lord GOD,' when the LORD has not spoken.
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The people of the land
49have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and
50have extorted from the sojourner without justice.
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51And I sought for a man among them
52who should build up the wall
53and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
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Therefore
54I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned
55their way upon their heads, declares the Lord GOD."