Ezekiel 20 ~ 22

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20:45And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Compare
20:46Son of man, set your face toward Teman, and utter something against the south and prophesy against the forest field of the Negev; Compare
20:47And say to the forest of the Negev, Hear the word of Jehovah: Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am now kindling a fire in you, and it will consume in you every tender tree and every dry tree; the flaming flame will not be quenched, and every surface will be scorched, from the south to the north. Compare
20:48And all flesh will see that I, Jehovah, kindled it; it will not be quenched. Compare
20:49Then I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! They say of me, Does he not just use parables? Compare
21:1And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Compare
21:2Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and utter something against the holy places and prophesy against the land of Israel; Compare
21:3And say to the land of Israel, Thus says Jehovah, I am now against you, and I will draw My sword out of its sheath, and I will cut off from you the righteous man and the wicked. Compare
21:4Because I will cut off from you the righteous man and the wicked, therefore My sword will go forth out of its sheath against all flesh, from the south to the north. Compare
21:5And all flesh will know that I, Jehovah, have drawn My sword out of its sheath; it will not return again. Compare
21:6But you, son of man, groan! With the shaking of loins and with bitterness groan in their sight. Compare
21:7And when they say to you, Why do you groan, you shall say, Because of the report that comes; and every heart will melt and every hand will be feeble and every spirit will faint and every knee will flow into water. It is about to come and it will happen, declares the Lord Jehovah. Compare
21:8Again the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Compare
21:9Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, Say: A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished. Compare
21:10It is sharpened to slaughter utterly, polished to flash like lightning. Or shall we rejoice, saying, The scepter of my son despises all other wood? Compare
21:11And it is given to be polished, that it may be wielded in the hand. The sword-it is sharpened and it is polished, that it may be given into the hand of the slayer. Compare
21:12Cry out and howl, son of man, for it will come against My people. It will come against all the princes of Israel; they are cast at the sword with My people; therefore strike your thigh. Compare
21:13For a trial has been made. And what if even the scepter that despises is no more? declares the Lord Jehovah. Compare
21:14You therefore, son of man, prophesy and clap your hands together; and let the sword be doubled a third time, the sword for the slain; it is the sword for a great slain one that encircles them. Compare
21:15In order that hearts may fail and that occasions of falling may multiply at all their gates, I have given the slaughtering sword. Ah! It has been made to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaying. Compare
21:16Gather yourself up, go to the right; set yourself, go to the left, to wherever your edge is appointed. Compare
21:17And I, even I, will clap My hands together and will cause My wrath to rest; I, Jehovah, have spoken. Compare
21:18Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Compare
21:19And you, son of man, appoint two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; out of one land both will come. And make a signpost; make it at the fork in the road to each city. Compare
21:20You shall appoint a way for the sword to come, either to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, or to fortified Jerusalem in Judah. Compare
21:21For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the road, at the fork in the two roads, using divination; he shakes his arrows, he inquires of the teraphim, he observes the liver. Compare
21:22Into his right hand came the divination for Jerusalem, to set up the battering ram, to open his mouth in killing, to lift up his voice with a shout, to set the battering rams against the gates, to cast up a mound, to build a siege wall. Compare
21:23Yet to those in Jerusalem it will be as a false divination in their sight, to those who have sworn solemn oaths; but He brings the iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken. Compare
21:24Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear, because you have come to remembrance, you will be taken with the hand. Compare
21:25And you, profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come at the time of the iniquity of the end, Compare
21:26Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Remove the turban, and take off the crown; what is will not be. Exalt the lowly, and lay low the exalted. Compare
21:27Ruins, ruins, ruins will I make it; and this also will be no more, until He comes whose right it is; and I will give it to Him. Compare
21:28And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon and concerning their reproach; and say, A sword, a sword, drawn for the slaughter, polished to consume, that it may flash like lightning - Compare
21:29While they see vanity for you, while they divine deception for you-to bring you down upon the necks of the wicked slain, whose day has come at the time of the iniquity of the end. Compare
21:30Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you. Compare
21:31And I will pour out My indignation upon you; with the fire of My overflowing wrath I will blow against you, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction. Compare
21:32You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land; you will not be remembered; for I, Jehovah, have spoken. Compare
22:1Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Compare
22:2Now you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Therefore make her know all her abominations. Compare
22:3And you shall say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols, against her own good, that she may defile herself! Compare
22:4You are guilty for the blood which you have shed and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near and have come to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the countries. Compare
22:5Those who are near and those who are far off from you will mock you, who are ill-reputed and in great tumult. Compare
22:6Indeed the princes of Israel, each according to his power, were within you to shed blood. Compare
22:7They have lightly esteemed father and mother within you; they have treated the stranger with oppression in the midst of you, and the orphan and the widow they have ill-treated within you. Compare
22:8You have despised My holy things and have profaned My Sabbaths. Compare
22:9Slanderous men are within you in order to shed blood, and within you they have eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of you they have committed lewdness. Compare
22:10In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their father; they have humbled women in their uncleanness within you. Compare
22:11And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law, and another has humbled his sister, his father's daughter, within you. Compare
22:12Within you they have taken bribes in order to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase and have wrested unjust gain from your neighbors by extortion and have forgotten Me, declares the Lord Jehovah. Compare
22:13Therefore I have now struck My hand against your wrested unjust gain which you have made and at the bloodshed which is in the midst of you. Compare
22:14Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days when I will deal with you? I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I will do it. Compare
22:15And I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness from you. Compare
22:16And you will be profaned through yourself in the sight of the nations, and you will know that I am Jehovah. Compare
22:17And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Compare
22:18Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver. Compare
22:19Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because all of you have become dross, therefore I am now gathering you into the midst of Jerusalem. Compare
22:20As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace to blow fire upon it and smelt it, so will I gather you in My anger and in My wrath; and I will lay you there and smelt you. Compare
22:21Yes, I will gather you and blow upon you with the fire of My overflowing wrath, and you will be smelted in the midst of it. Compare
22:22As silver is smelted in the midst of the furnace, so will you be smelted in the midst of it; and you will know that I, Jehovah, have poured out My wrath upon you. Compare
22:23And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Compare
22:24Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation. Compare
22:25There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of her, like a roaring lion taking prey: They have devoured souls; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have increased the number of her widows in the midst of her. Compare
22:26Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, nor have they made the difference known between the unclean and the clean; and from My Sabbaths they have hidden their eyes; and I am profaned in the midst of them. Compare
22:27Her rulers within her are like wolves taking prey, by shedding blood and destroying souls in order to wrest unjust gain. Compare
22:28And her prophets have plastered over their deeds with untempered mortar for them, seeing vain visions and deceptive divination for them, saying, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah has not spoken. Compare
22:29The people of the land have practiced extortion and have committed plunder and have oppressed the poor and needy and have mistreated the stranger without justice. Compare
22:30And I sought a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the breach before Me for the sake of the land so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one. Compare
22:31Therefore I have poured out My indignation upon them; in the fire of My overflowing wrath I have consumed them; I have brought their own way upon their heads, declares the Lord Jehovah. Compare

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