1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

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2“And you, son of man, should you not judge, should you not judge the city of blood?

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Ezekiel 24:6, Ezekiel 20:4, Nahum 3:1, Isaiah 58:1, Ezekiel 24:9

3And you shall reveal to her all her abominations. And you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: This is the city which sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and which has made idols against herself, so that she may be defiled.

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Ezekiel 22:27, Ezekiel 22:27, Zephaniah 3:3, Ezekiel 23:37, 2 Kings 21:2

4You have offended by your blood, which you shed from yourself. And you have been defiled by your idols which you yourself made. And you have caused your days to approach, and you have brought on the time of your years. Because of this, I have made you a disgrace to the Gentiles, and a derision to all the lands.

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2 Kings 21:16, 2 Kings 21:16, Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:14, Ezekiel 5:14

5Those that are near and those that are far from you will triumph over you. You are filthy, infamous, great in destruction.

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Jeremiah 15:2, Jeremiah 15:3, Isaiah 22:2, Jeremiah 15:2, Jeremiah 15:3

6Behold, the leaders of Israel have each used his arm to shed blood within you.

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Ezekiel 22:27, Isaiah 1:23, Ezekiel 22:27, Isaiah 1:23, Nehemiah 9:34

7They have abused father and mother within you. The new arrival has been oppressed in your midst. They have grieved the orphan and the widow among you.

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Deuteronomy 27:16, Exodus 22:21, Exodus 22:22, Deuteronomy 27:16, Exodus 22:21

8You have spurned my sanctuaries, and you have defiled my Sabbaths.

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Ezekiel 23:38, Ezekiel 23:39, Ezekiel 23:38, Ezekiel 23:39, Ezekiel 20:13

9Maligning men were within you, in order to shed blood, and they have eaten upon the mountains within you. They have worked wickedness in your midst.

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Hosea 4:14, Hosea 4:14, Hosea 4:2, Leviticus 19:16, Hosea 4:10

10They have uncovered the nakedness of their father within you. They have debased the uncleanness of the menstruous woman within you.

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Leviticus 18:19, Leviticus 18:19, Leviticus 20:11, Ezekiel 18:6, Leviticus 18:7

11And each one has committed abomination with the wife of his neighbor. And the father-in-law has heinously defiled his daughter-in-law. The brother has oppressed his sister, the daughter of his father, within you.

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Leviticus 18:9, 2 Samuel 13:14, Leviticus 20:17, Leviticus 18:15, Leviticus 18:9

12They have accepted bribes among you to shed blood. You have received usury and superabundance, and in avarice you have oppressed your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.

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Deuteronomy 27:25, Ezekiel 23:35, Deuteronomy 27:25, Ezekiel 23:35, Micah 7:2

13Behold, I have clapped my hands over your avarice, which you have worked, and over the blood that has been shed in your midst.

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Isaiah 33:15, Ezekiel 21:17, Isaiah 33:15, Ezekiel 21:17, Ezekiel 22:27

14How can your heart endure, or your hands prevail, in the days that I will bring upon you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will act.

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Ezekiel 21:7, Ezekiel 21:7, Ezekiel 17:24, Ezekiel 17:24, Ezekiel 24:14

15And I will disperse you among the nations, and I will scatter you among the lands, and I will cause your uncleanness to fade away from you.

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Nehemiah 1:8, Nehemiah 1:8, Deuteronomy 4:27, Ezekiel 22:22, Zechariah 7:14

16And I will possess you in the sight of the Gentiles. And you shall know that I am the Lord.”

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Ezekiel 6:7, Ezekiel 6:7, Ezekiel 7:24, Psalms 83:18, Ezekiel 7:24

17And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

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18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become like dross to me. All these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace; they have become like the dross of silver.

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Psalms 119:119, Isaiah 1:22, Psalms 119:119, Isaiah 1:22, Isaiah 48:10

19Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Since you have all turned into dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you together in the midst of Jerusalem,

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Ezekiel 24:3, Ezekiel 24:6, Matthew 13:30, Matthew 13:40, Matthew 13:42

20just as they gather silver, and brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace, so that I may kindle in it a fire to melt it. So will I gather you together in my fury and in my wrath, and I will be quieted, and I will melt you down.

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Isaiah 54:16, Jeremiah 4:20, Ezekiel 21:31, Ezekiel 21:32, Jeremiah 4:11

21And I will gather you together, and I will burn you in the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in its midst.

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Ezekiel 22:20, Ezekiel 22:22, Jeremiah 21:12, Psalms 21:9, 2 Kings 25:9

22Just as silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so will you be in its midst. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I will have poured out my indignation upon you.”

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Ezekiel 20:8, Ezekiel 20:33, Ezekiel 20:8, Ezekiel 20:33, Hosea 5:10

23And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

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24“Son of man, say to her: You are a land unclean and not rained upon, in the day of fury.

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2 Chronicles 28:22, Isaiah 1:5, Jeremiah 2:30, 2 Chronicles 36:14, 2 Chronicles 36:16

25There is a conspiracy of prophets in her midst. Like a lion, roaring and seizing the prey, they have devoured souls. They have taken riches and a price. They have multiplied widows in her midst.

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Hosea 6:9, Hosea 6:9, Ezekiel 13:19, Jeremiah 2:34, Jeremiah 11:9

26Her priests have despised my law, and they have defiled my sanctuaries. They have held no distinction between holy and profane. And they have not understood the difference between defiled and clean. And they have averted their eyes from my Sabbaths. And I was profaned in their midst.

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Leviticus 10:10, Leviticus 10:10, Ezekiel 22:8, Malachi 2:8, Ezekiel 22:8

27Her leaders in her midst are like wolves seizing the prey: to shed blood, and to perish souls, and to continually pursue profit with avarice.

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Ezekiel 22:13, Ezekiel 22:13, Ezekiel 22:6, Isaiah 1:23, Ezekiel 22:6

28And her prophets have covered them without tempering the mortar, seeing emptiness, and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken.

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Ezekiel 13:6, Ezekiel 13:7, Ezekiel 13:6, Ezekiel 13:7, Ezekiel 13:10

29The people of the land have oppressed with slander and have seized with violence. They have afflicted the needy and the poor, and they have oppressed the new arrival by accusations without judgment.

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Ezekiel 22:7, Ezekiel 22:7, Exodus 23:9, Exodus 23:9, Jeremiah 5:31

30And I sought among them for a man who might set up a hedge, and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I might not destroy it; and I found no one.

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Isaiah 59:16, Isaiah 59:16, Jeremiah 5:1, Jeremiah 5:1, Psalms 106:23

31And so I poured out my indignation upon them; in the fire of my wrath I consumed them. I have rendered their own way upon their head, says the Lord God.”

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Ezekiel 16:43, Ezekiel 7:8, Ezekiel 7:9, Ezekiel 9:10, Ezekiel 16:43