WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.660 Chapter 22 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 00:30.000 --> 00:34.040 Shed, and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made. 00:34.380 --> 00:39.960 And thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years. 00:40.740 --> 00:45.640 Therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all 00:45.640 --> 00:46.140 countries. 00:47.020 --> 00:51.860 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art 00:51.860 --> 00:53.380 infamous and much vexed. 00:54.080 --> 00:58.820 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to 00:58.820 --> 00:59.420 shed blood. 01:00.240 --> 01:03.720 In thee have they set light by father and mother. 01:04.560 --> 01:08.280 In the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger. 01:08.780 --> 01:11.560 In thee they have vexed the fatherless and the widow. 01:13.160 --> 01:17.740 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. 01:18.480 --> 01:23.900 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood, and in thee they eat upon the 01:23.900 --> 01:24.340 mountains. 01:24.880 --> 01:27.140 In the midst of thee they commit lewdness. 01:27.880 --> 01:31.560 In thee have they discovered their father's nakedness. 01:32.140 --> 01:36.100 In thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution. 01:37.340 --> 01:41.720 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbor's wife, and another hath 01:41.720 --> 01:43.920 lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. 01:44.340 --> 01:48.400 And another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter. 01:49.160 --> 01:51.900 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood. 01:52.740 --> 01:56.920 Thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy 01:56.920 --> 02:01.100 neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God. 02:02.500 --> 02:07.900 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain, which thou hast 02:07.900 --> 02:11.980 made, and at thy blood, which hath been in the midst of thee. 02:12.660 --> 02:18.240 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal 02:18.240 --> 02:18.660 with thee? 02:19.200 --> 02:21.700 I, the Lord, have spoken it, and will do it. 02:21.700 --> 02:26.420 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, 02:26.840 --> 02:29.280 and will consume thy filthiness out of thee. 02:29.960 --> 02:34.300 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, 02:34.380 --> 02:37.060 and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. 02:38.100 --> 02:43.980 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, the house of Israel is 02:43.980 --> 02:45.340 to me become dross. 02:46.020 --> 02:52.200 All they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace. 02:52.740 --> 02:54.540 They are even the dross of silver. 02:55.280 --> 03:00.180 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Because ye are all become dross, 03:00.660 --> 03:05.820 behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem, as they gather 03:05.820 --> 03:10.800 silver and brass, and iron and lead and tin, into the midst of the furnace, 03:11.100 --> 03:13.660 to blow the fire upon it, to melt it. 03:13.960 --> 03:17.380 So will I gather you in mine anger, and in my fury. 03:17.380 --> 03:20.260 And I will leave you there, and melt you. 03:21.100 --> 03:25.280 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath. 03:25.740 --> 03:27.940 And ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. 03:28.580 --> 03:33.160 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the 03:33.160 --> 03:33.940 midst thereof. 03:34.360 --> 03:39.260 And ye shall know that I the Lord have poured out my fury upon you. 03:40.200 --> 03:45.560 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, say unto her, 03:46.180 --> 03:51.460 Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. 03:52.240 --> 03:57.220 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion 03:57.220 --> 03:58.440 ravening the prey. 03:58.780 --> 04:00.140 They have devoured souls. 04:00.480 --> 04:02.500 They have taken the treasure and precious things. 04:03.200 --> 04:05.740 They have made her many widows in the midst thereof. 04:06.400 --> 04:10.520 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things. 04:11.080 --> 04:14.040 They have put no difference between the holy and profane. 04:14.480 --> 04:17.760 Neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, 04:18.120 --> 04:20.340 and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths. 04:20.500 --> 04:22.460 And I am profaned among them. 04:23.160 --> 04:28.280 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood 04:28.280 --> 04:31.240 and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 04:31.940 --> 04:35.880 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, 04:36.460 --> 04:41.620 and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord 04:41.620 --> 04:42.440 hath not spoken. 04:43.340 --> 04:46.940 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, 04:47.460 --> 04:49.540 and have vexed the poor and needy. 04:49.780 --> 04:51.860 Yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. 04:52.680 --> 04:56.480 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, 04:56.880 --> 05:01.300 and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it. 05:01.680 --> 05:02.600 But I found none. 05:03.400 --> 05:06.440 Therefore have I poured out my indignation upon them. 05:06.640 --> 05:09.540 I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. 05:10.000 --> 05:14.280 Their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God.