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"You shall say, 'Thussays the LordGOD, "A citysheddingblood in her midst, so that her time will come, and that makesidols, contrary to her interest, for defilement!
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"You have becomeguilty by the bloodwhich you have shed, and defiled by your idolswhich you have made. Thus you have brought your daynear and have come to your years; therefore* I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the lands.
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"They have treatedfather and motherlightly within you. The alien they have oppressed* in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.
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"You have despised My holythings and profaned My sabbaths.
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"Slanderousmen have been in you for the purpose of sheddingblood, and in you they have eaten at the mountain shrines. In your midst they have committedacts of lewdness.
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"One has committedabomination with his neighbor'swife and another has lewdlydefiled his daughter-in-law. And another in you has humbled his sister, his father'sdaughter.
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"In you they have takenbribes to shedblood; you have takeninterest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression, and you have forgotten Me," declares the LordGOD.
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"Son of man, the house of Israel has becomedross to Me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
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'As they gathersilver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blowfire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My wrath and I will lay you there and melt you.
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'As silver is melted in the furnace, so you will be melted in the midst of it; and you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out My wrath on you.' "
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"There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaringliontearing the prey. They have devouredlives; they have takentreasure and preciousthings; they have mademanywidows in the midst of her.
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"Her priests have doneviolence to My law and have profaned My holythings; they have madenodistinctionbetween the holy and the profane, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profanedamong them.
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"Her prophets have smearedwhitewash for them, seeingfalsevisions and divininglies for them, saying, 'Thussays the LordGOD,' when the LORD has not spoken.
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"The people of the land have practicedoppression and committedrobbery, and they have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojournerwithoutjustice.
30
"I searched for a manamong them who would build up the wall and stand in the gapbefore Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I foundno one.
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"Thus I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; their way I have brought upon their heads," declares the LordGOD.