Eze 22:14 Will your heart be high or your hands strong in the days when I take you in hand? I the Lord have said it and will do it.
Eze 22:15 And I will send you in flight among the nations and wandering among the countries; and I will completely take away out of you everything which is unclean.
Eze 22:16 And you will be made low before the eyes of the nations; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.
Eze 22:17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 22:18 Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.
Eze 22:19 For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem.
Eze 22:20 As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.
Eze 22:21 Yes, I will take you, breathing on you the fire of my wrath, and you will become soft in it.
Eze 22:22 As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become soft in it; and you will be certain that I the Lord have let loose my passion on you.
Eze 22:23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 22:24 Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no rain or thunderstorm has come in the day of wrath.
Eze 22:25 Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.
Eze 22:26 Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.
Eze 22:27 Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
Eze 22:28 And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.
Eze 22:29 The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.
Eze 22:30 And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.
Eze 22:31 And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.
Eze 23:1 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
Eze 23:2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:
Eze 23:3 They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there their breasts were crushed, even the points of their young breasts were crushed.
Eze 23:4 Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah.
Eze 23:5 And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,
Eze 23:6 Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses.
Eze 23:7 And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the noblest men of Assyria: and she made herself unclean with the images of all who were desired by her.
Eze 23:8 And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they wer"};
