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

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2And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou 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 thou shalt shew her all her abominations, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God: This is the city that sheddeth blood in the midst of her, that her time may come: and that hath made idols against herself, to defile herself.

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

4Thou art become guilty in thy blood which thou hast shed: and thou art defiled in thy idols which thou hast made: and thou hast made thy days to draw near, and hast brought on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all countries.

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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 thee, shall triumph over thee: thou filthy one, 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 princes of Israel, every one hath employed his arm in thee to shed blood.

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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 in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.

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

8Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my sabbaths.

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

9Slanderers have been in thee to shed blood, and they have eaten upon the mountains in thee, they have committed wickedness in the midst of thee.

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

10They have discovered the nakedness of their father in thee, they have humbled the uncleanness of the menstruous woman in thee.

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

11And every one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife, and the father in law hath wickedly defiled his daughter in law, the brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in thee.

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

12They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast taken usury and increase, and hast covetously oppressed thy neighbours: and thou hast forgotten me, saith 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 at thy covetousness, which thou hast exercised: and at the blood that hath been shed in the midst of thee.

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

14Shall thy heart endure, or shall thy hands prevail in the days which I will bring upon thee: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

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

15And I will disperse thee in the nations, and will scatter thee among the countries, and I will put an end to thy uncleanness in thee.

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

16And I will possess thee in the sight of the Gentiles, and thou shalt 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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18Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.

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

19Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you are 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

20As they gather silver, and brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace: that I may kindle a fire in it to melt it: so will I gather you together in my fury and in my wrath, and will take my rest, 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 will gather you together, and will burn you in the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst thereof.

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

22As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be in the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I 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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24Son of man, say to her: Thou art a land that is unclean, and not rained upon in the day of wrath.

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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 the midst thereof: like a lion that roareth and catcheth the prey, they have devoured souls, they have taken riches and hire, they have made many widows in the midst thereof.

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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 have defiled my sanctuaries: they have put no difference between holy and profane: nor have distinguished between the polluted and the clean: and they have turned away their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.

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

27Her princes in the midst of her, are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood, and to destroy souls, and to run after gains through covetousness.

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

28And her prophets have daubed them without tempering the mortar, seeing vain things, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the Lord God: when the Lord hath 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 used oppression, and committed robbery: they afflicted the needy and poor, and they oppressed the stranger by calumny 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 that might set up a hedge, and stand in the gap before me in favour of the land, that I might not destroy it: and I found none.

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

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

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