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Ezekiel 22; Ezekiel 23; 1 Peter 1

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Ezekiel 22

1 The LORD's word came to me:
2 You, human one, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then explain all her detestable practices to her.
3 Say, The LORD God proclaims: City, self-destructive blood-letter, self-defiling idol maker:
4 All the blood that you've shed is your punishment, and all the idols that you've made are your defilement. This is how you've shortened your days and hastened the end of your years! For this reason I've given you over to the ridicule of nations and the derision of every land.
5 Those from near and far will mock your infamous name and great chaos.
6 Look, Israel's princes, every one of them, have joined forces to shed blood in you.
7 In you they treat father and mother with contempt. In you they oppress immigrants and deny the rights of orphans and widows.
8 You despise my holy things and degrade my sabbaths.
9 In you slanderers show up to shed blood. In you they eat on the mountains. In you they do obscene things.
10 In you a father's nakedness is uncovered. In you menstruating women are violated.
11 Every man engages in detestable practices with his neighbor's wife, every man defiles his daughter-in-law with obscene acts, and every man violates his sister, his own father's daughter.
12 In you they take bribes to shed blood. You collect interest and fees, you profit by extorting your neighbor, and you neglect even me! This is what the LORD God says.
13 I now strike my hands over your ill-gotten gain and blood that's been shed in you.
14 Will your strength and courage endure when I deal with you? I am the LORD: I speak, and I act!
15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you throughout the lands, and so I will remove your uncleanness from you.
16 When you are degraded like this in the sight of the nations, then you will know that I am the LORD.
17 The LORD's word came to me:
18 Human one, the house of Israel has become a waste product for me. They are all copper, tin, iron, and lead. In the furnace, they've become the waste product of silver.
19 So this is what the LORD God says: Because you've all become a waste product, I'm now gathering you into the middle of Jerusalem.
20 Just as silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin are collected and placed in a furnace to fan the flames under them and melt them down, so in my anger and rage I will collect you, put you in, and melt you down.
21 I will gather you, fan the flames of my wrath under you, and melt you down in the middle of it.
22 As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it. You will know that I, the LORD, have poured out my rage on you.
23 The LORD's word came to me:
24 Human one, say to her, You are an unclean land without rain on the day of reckoning.
25 The conspiracy of princes in her is like a roaring lion ripping up prey. They've piled up wealth and precious goods and made many widows in her.
26 Her priests have done violence to my instructions and made my holy things impure. They have not clearly separated the holy from the ordinary, and they have not taught the difference between unclean and clean things. They've disregarded my sabbaths. So I've been degraded among them.
27 The officials in her are like wolves ripping up prey. They shed blood and destroy lives for unjust riches.
28 Her prophets have whitewashed everything for them, seeing false visions and making wrong predictions for them, saying, "This is what the LORD God says," when the LORD hasn't spoken.
29 The important people of the land have practiced extortion and have committed robbery. They've oppressed the poor and mistreated the immigrant. They've oppressed and denied justice.
30 I looked for anyone to repair the wall and stand in the gap for me on behalf of the land, so I wouldn't have to destroy it. But I couldn't find anyone.
31 So I've poured out my anger on them. With my furious fire I've finished them off. I've held them accountable. This is what the LORD God proclaims.
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Ezekiel 23

1 The LORD's word came to me:
2 Human one, there were two women, daughters of one woman.
3 When they were girls in Egypt, they began to prostitute themselves by allowing their young and nubile breasts to be touched and fondled.
4 The older sister was named Oholah, and the younger sister was named Oholibah. They became mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Now Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
5 But Oholah became unfaithful to me and lusted after her lovers the Assyrians:
6 warriors dressed in fine blue cloth, governors and officers, charioteers and horsemen, all of them the most handsome of men.
7 She sought them out to seduce them, all of them men of the highest rank of Assyria. She defiled herself by everyone she lusted after and also by all their idols.
8 But she never gave up her promiscuities with the Egyptians, who had slept with her in her girlhood and fondled her nubile breasts, and who continued to seduce her.
9 Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers, to the Assyrians for whom she lusted.
10 They stripped her naked, took her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. And she became notorious among women for the punishments they enacted against her.
11 Her sister Oholibah saw it, and she proceeded to outdo her sister in her lust and in her seductions.
12 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officers, warriors richly clothed, charioteers and horsemen, all of them the most handsome of men.
13 I saw that she too defiled herself. Both had the same tendencies,
14 but she was even more promiscuous. She saw men carved in wall reliefs, images of Chaldeans outlined in vermilion,
15 wearing only loincloths around their hips and flowing headbands on their heads. All of them had the appearance of warriors of the third rank, the likeness of Babylonians whose native land is Chaldea.
16 Aroused just by looking at them, she sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
17 The Babylonians came to her to lie down and make love with her, defiling her with their seductions. But once she had defiled herself with them, she recoiled from them in disgust.
18 When her seductions became known and her nakedness exposed, I recoiled from her just as I had recoiled from her sister.
19 But she added to her promiscuities, bringing to mind her youthful days when she was a prostitute in the land of Egypt.
20 She lusted after their male consorts, whose sexual organs were like those of donkeys, and whose ejaculation was like that of horses.
21 She relived the wicked days of her youth, when the Egyptians touched and fondled her young and nubile breasts.
22 So Oholibah, the LORD God proclaims: I'm now inciting your lovers against you, all those from whom you recoiled, and I will bring them against you from all around—
23 Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, all the Assyrians with them, the most handsome young men, all of them governors and officers, career officers and conscripts, all of them on horseback.
24 They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a great army, with shield, buckler, and helmet; and they will surround you. I will hand your punishment over to them, and they will judge you according to their laws.
25 I will direct my passion against you, and they will deal with you in wrath. They will cut off your nose and ears, and those who are left will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and those who are left will be burned with fire.
26 They will strip your clothing from you and remove your beautiful crown.
27 That's how I will put an end to your lewdness and your Egyptian-styled promiscuity. Never again will you stare at them, and you won't remember Egypt anymore.
28 The LORD God proclaims: I'm now handing you over to those whom you hate and from whom you recoil.
29 They will deal hatefully with you: They will seize your pay and leave you completely naked. Your promiscuity, betrayal, and seductions will be exposed.
30 This will be done to you because you sold yourself to the nations and became defiled by their idols.
31 You followed in your sister's path, so I have put her cup into your hand.
32 The LORD God proclaims: Deep and wide is your sister's cup. Drink! Appointed for abuse and scorn, it overflows.
33 You will be filled with drunken sadness. A cup of devastation and dismay is the cup of your sister Samaria.
34 Drink it, drain it dry, break it into pieces, and tear off your breasts, for I have spoken. This is what the LORD God says.
35 So now the LORD God proclaims: Because you forgot me and turned your back on me, you alone will bear the consequences of your betrayal and promiscuities.
36 Then the LORD said to me, Human one, judge Oholah and Oholibah, and make known their detestable practices to them.
37 They committed adultery, so now blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols, and they even took their children whom they had borne to me and offered them up to be consumed for them.
38 They also did this to me: On the same day, they made my sanctuary unclean and made my sabbaths impure.
39 When they slaughtered their children for their idols, they came into my sanctuary and made it impure on that very same day. They actually did this inside my temple.
40 They even sent for men who came from a great distance. No sooner than a messenger was sent, they arrived! For these men you bathed, you painted your eyes, and you put on your jewelry.
41 You took your place on a splendid couch with a richly set table in front of it, and you set my incense and my oil on it.
42 The sound of a noisy crowd was around her. Men from the common multitude, drinkers of wine, were brought from the desert. They put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.
43 Then I thought, For a foolish woman they become adulterers! Incited by her seduction, they prostitute themselves—for her!
44 They come as if coming to a prostitute, first to Oholah, and then to Oholibah, those traitorous women.
45 But men who do the right thing will judge them, and they will be punished as adulterers and murderers, because they are in fact adulterers, and blood is on their hands.
46 The LORD God proclaims: Bring up an assembly against them, and decree terror and plunder for them.
47 Let the assembly stone them! Let them carve them up with their swords, slay their sons and daughters, and burn their houses with fire!
48 So I will put an end to betrayal in the land. Taking warning, no woman will betray as you have done.
49 You will be held accountable for your betrayals, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will know that I am the LORD God.
Copyright © 2011 Common English Bible

1 Peter 1

1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God's chosen strangers in the world of the diaspora, who live in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.
2 God the Father chose you because of what he knew beforehand. He chose you through the Holy Spirit's work of making you holy and because of the faithful obedience and sacrifice of Jesus Christ. May God's grace and peace be multiplied to you.
3 May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ be blessed! On account of his vast mercy, he has given us new birth. You have been born anew into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
4 You have a pure and enduring inheritance that cannot perish—an inheritance that is presently kept safe in heaven for you.
5 Through his faithfulness, you are guarded by God's power so that you can receive the salvation he is ready to reveal in the last time.
6 You now rejoice in this hope, even if it's necessary for you to be distressed for a short time by various trials.
7 This is necessary so that your faith may be found genuine. (Your faith is more valuable than gold, which will be destroyed even though it is itself tested by fire.) Your genuine faith will result in praise, glory, and honor for you when Jesus Christ is revealed.
8 Although you've never seen him, you love him. Even though you don't see him now, you trust him and so rejoice with a glorious joy that is too much for words.
9 You are receiving the goal of your faith: your salvation.
10 The prophets, who long ago foretold the grace that you've received, searched and explored, inquiring carefully about this salvation.
11 They wondered what the Spirit of Christ within them was saying when he bore witness beforehand about the suffering that would happen to Christ and the glory that would follow. They wondered what sort of person or what sort of time they were speaking about.
12 It was revealed to them that in their search they were not serving themselves but you. These things, which even angels long to examine, have now been proclaimed to you by those who brought you the good news. They did this in the power of the Holy Spirit, who was sent from heaven.
13 Therefore, once you have your minds ready for action and you are thinking clearly, place your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed.
14 Don't be conformed to your former desires, those that shaped you when you were ignorant. But, as obedient children,
15 you must be holy in every aspect of your lives, just as the one who called you is holy.
16 It is written, You will be holy, because I am holy.
17 Since you call upon a Father who judges all people according to their actions without favoritism, you should conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your dwelling in a strange land.
18 Live in this way, knowing that you were not liberated by perishable things like silver or gold from the empty lifestyle you inherited from your ancestors.
19 Instead, you were liberated by the precious blood of Christ, like that of a flawless, spotless lamb.
20 Christ was chosen before the creation of the world, but was only revealed at the end of time. This was done for you,
21 who through Christ are faithful to the God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory. So now, your faith and hope should rest in God.
22 As you set yourselves apart by your obedience to the truth so that you might have genuine affection for your fellow believers, love each other deeply and earnestly.
23 Do this because you have been given new birth—not from the type of seed that decays but from seed that doesn't. This seed is God's life-giving and enduring word.
24 Thus, All human life on the earth is like grass, and all human glory is like a flower in a field. The grass dries up and its flower falls off,
25 but the Lord's word endures forever. This is the word that was proclaimed to you as good news.
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