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| 1Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, | 1The word of the LORD came to me: |
| 2“Now, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, show her all her abominations! | 2"As for you, son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment, are you willing to pronounce judgment on the bloody city? Then confront her with all her abominable deeds! |
| 3Then say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “The city sheds blood in her own midst, that her time may come; and she makes idols within herself to defile herself. | 3Then say, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: O city, who spills blood within herself (which brings on her doom), and who makes herself idols (which results in impurity), |
| 4You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all countries. | 4you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands. |
| 5Those near and those far from you will mock you as infamous and full of tumult. | 5Those both near and far from you will mock you, you with your bad reputation, full of turmoil. |
| 6“Look, the princes of Israel: each one has used his power to shed blood in you. | 6"'See how each of the princes of Israel living within you has used his authority to shed blood. |
| 7In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow. | 7They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you. |
| 8You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths. | 8You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths! |
| 9In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed; in you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness. | 9Slanderous men shed blood within you. Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; they commit obscene acts among you. |
| 10In you men uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are set apart during their impurity. | 10They have sex with their father's wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you. |
| 11One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; and another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter. | 11One commits an abominable act with his neighbor's wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister--his father's daughter--within you. |
| 12In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me,” says the Lord GOD. | 12They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the sovereign LORD. |
| 13“Behold, therefore, I beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst. | 13"'See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you. |
| 14Can your heart endure, or can your hands remain strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and will do it. | 14Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it! |
| 15I will scatter you among the nations, disperse you throughout the countries, and remove your filthiness completely from you. | 15I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you. |
| 16You shall defile yourself in the sight of the nations; then you shall know that I am the LORD.” ’ ” | 16You will be profaned within yourself in the sight of the nations; then you will know that I am the LORD.'" |
| 17The word of the LORD came to me, saying, | 17The word of the LORD came to me: |
| 18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; they are all bronze, tin, iron, and lead, in the midst of a furnace; they have become dross from silver. | 18"Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver. |
| 19Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. | 19Therefore this is what the sovereign LORD says: 'Because all of you have become slag, look out!--I am about to gather you in the middle of Jerusalem. |
| 20As men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you. | 20As silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered in a furnace so that the fire can melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my rage. I will deposit you there and melt you. |
| 21Yes, I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst. | 21I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it. |
| 22As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall you be melted in its midst; then you shall know that I, the LORD, have poured out My fury on you.’ ” | 22As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out my anger on you.'" |
| 23And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, | 23The word of the LORD came to me: |
| 24“Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.’ | 24"Son of man, say to her: 'You are a land that receives no rain or showers in the day of my anger.' |
| 25The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured people; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. | 25Her princes within her are like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they have devoured lives. They take away riches and valuable things; they have made many women widows within it. |
| 26Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. | 26Her priests abuse my law and have desecrated my holy things. They do not distinguish between the holy and the profane, or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore my Sabbaths and I am profaned in their midst. |
| 27Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy people, and to get dishonest gain. | 27Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey--shedding blood and destroying lives--so they can get dishonest profit. |
| 28Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ when the LORD had not spoken. | 28Her prophets coat their messages with whitewash. They see false visions and announce lying omens for them, saying, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says,' when the LORD has not spoken. |
| 29The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the stranger. | 29The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the foreigner who lives among them and denied them justice. |
| 30So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. | 30"I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one. |
| 31Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord GOD. | 31So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, declares the sovereign LORD." |
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