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and you shall say: This is what the Lord, the Lord says: O city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes devisings against herself, to defile her!
By the bloods of theirs which you shed you have fallen, and by your devisings which you made you were defiled; and you have brought your days near and have brought on the time of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands —
Each man acted lawlessly with his neighbor's wife, and each defiled his daughter-in-law with impiety, and in you each humiliated his sister, his father's daughter.
In you they took gifts, so that they might shed blood; in you they took interest and increase; and you completed the consummation of your wickedness that lies in oppression, but me you forgot, says the Lord.
But if I strike my hand against my hand over the things you have brought to completion, which you did, and over your bloods that have been shed in your midst —
Just as silver and copper and iron and tin and lead are gathered into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire into it so that it may be melted, so I will gather you in my anger, and I will collect you and melt you.
As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall you be melted in her midst; and you shall recognize that I the Lord have poured out my wrath upon you.
whose leaders in her midst are like roaring lions, seizing plunder, devouring souls by force, taking valuables by injustice; and your widows have been multiplied in your midst.
And her priests have set aside my law and profaned my holy things; between holy and profane they made no distinction, and between unclean and clean they made no distinction; and from my sabbaths they hid their eyes, and I was profaned in their midst.
And her prophets, plastering them over, shall fall — seeing vain things, divining lies, saying, This is what the Lord says, and the Lord has not spoken.
They oppress the people of the land with injustice and plunder spoil; they tyrannize the poor and the needy, and they do not deal with the sojourner justly.
And I sought from among them a man behaving uprightly and standing wholly before my face in the time of the land, so that I would not utterly blot her out; and I found none.
So I poured out my wrath upon her with the fire of my anger, to make an end of them; their ways I have repaid upon their heads, says the Lord, the Lord.