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and thou shalt know that I
am
the L
ORD
.
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And the word of the L
ORD
came unto me, saying,
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Son
of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they
are
brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in
the midst of the furnace; they are
even
the dross of silver.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
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As
they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow
the fire upon it, to melt
it;
so will I gather
you
in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave
you
there,
and melt you.
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Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye
shall be melted in the midst thereof.
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As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye
be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the L
ORD
have poured out my fury upon
you.
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And the word of the L
ORD
came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, say unto her, Thou
art
the
land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
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There is
a conspiracy of her
prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they
have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
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Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference
between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed
difference
between the unclean and the
clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
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Her princes in
the midst thereof
are
like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood,
and
to destroy souls, to get
dishonest gain.
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And her prophets have daubed them with untempered
morter,
seeing vanity, and
divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the L
ORD
hath not spoken.
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The
people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy:
yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
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And I sought for a man among them, that
should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it:
but I found none.
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Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed
them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord
GOD.
CHAPTER 23
The word of the L
ORD
came again unto me, saying,
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Son of man, there were two women, the
daughters of one mother:
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And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms
in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
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And the names of them
were
Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and
they bare sons and daughters. Thus
were
their names; Samaria
is
Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
5
And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians
her
neighbours,
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Which were
clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young
men, horsemen riding upon horses.
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Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them
that were
the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled
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