26:022:019 Therefore thus saith the Lord god;
Because ye are all become
dross,
behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst
of
Jerusalem.
26:022:020 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.
26:022:021 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you
in the fire of my
wrath,
and ye shall be melted in the midst therof.
26:022:022 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
lord
have poured out my fury upon you.
26:022:023 And the word of the lord came unto me, saying,
26:022:024 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the
land that is not
cleansed,
nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
26:022:025 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.
26:022:026 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.
26:022:027 Her princes in the midst thereof are like
wolves ravening the
prey,
to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest
gain.
26:022:028 And her prophets have daubed them with
untempered morter,
seeing
vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith
the
Lord god, when the lord hath not spoken.
26:022:029 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.
26:022:030 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.
26:022:031 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.
26:023:001 The word of the lord came again unto me, saying,
26:023:002 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
26:023:003 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.


