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Day 247: Ezekiel 21 - 23

Bible in a year reading for day 247.

Ezekiel 21

  1. 27 A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! And it will not be restored until the arrival of Him to whom it belongs, to whom I have assigned the right of judgment.’
  2. 28 Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—
  3. 29 while they offer false visions for you and lying divinations about you— to be placed on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.
  4. 30 Return the sword to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
  5. 31 I will pour out My anger upon you; I will breathe the fire of My fury against you; I will hand you over to brutal men, skilled in destruction.
  6. 32 You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will stain your own land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”

Ezekiel 22

  1. 1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  2. 2 “As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations
  3. 3 and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself,
  4. 4 you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.
  5. 5 Those near and far will mock you, O infamous city, full of turmoil.
  6. 6 See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood.
  7. 7 Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
  8. 8 You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
  9. 9 Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.
  10. 10 In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.
  11. 11 One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
  12. 12 In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
  13. 13 Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.
  14. 14 Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will act.
  15. 15 I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.
  16. 16 And when you have defiled yourself in the eyes of the nations, then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
  17. 17 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  18. 18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.
  19. 19 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because all of you have become dross, behold, I will gather you into Jerusalem.
  20. 20 Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you.
  21. 21 Yes, I will gather you together and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted within the city.
  22. 22 As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted within the city. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out My wrath upon you.’”
  23. 23 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  24. 24 “Son of man, say to her, ‘In the day of indignation, you are a land that has not been cleansed, upon which no rain has fallen.’
  25. 25 The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her.
  26. 26 Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
  27. 27 Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
  28. 28 Her prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.
  29. 29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
  30. 30 I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.
  31. 31 So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”

Ezekiel 23

  1. 1 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  2. 2 “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,
  3. 3 and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.
  4. 4 The older was named Oholah, and her sister was named Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their identities, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
  5. 5 Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
  6. 6 clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.
  7. 7 She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.
  8. 8 She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.
  9. 9 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.
  10. 10 They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and put her to the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgment against her.
  11. 11 Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.
  12. 12 She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors dressed in splendor, horsemen riding on steeds, all desirable young men.
  13. 13 And I saw that she too had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path.
  14. 14 But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,
  15. 15 wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
  16. 16 At the sight of them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
  17. 17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.
  18. 18 When Oholibah openly prostituted herself and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.
  19. 19 Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt
  20. 20 and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
  21. 21 So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.
  22. 22 Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will incite your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust. And I will bring them against you from every side—
  23. 23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them—all desirable young men, governors and commanders, officers and men of renown, mounted on horses.
  24. 24 They will come against you with a host of peoples, with weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will array themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. I will delegate judgment to them, and they will punish you according to their own standards.
  25. 25 And I will set My jealous rage against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your remnant will be consumed by fire.
  26. 26 They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry.
  27. 27 So I will put an end to your indecency and prostitution, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’
  28. 28 For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Surely I will deliver you into the hands of those you hate, from whom you turned away in disgust.
  29. 29 They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity
  30. 30 have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
  31. 31 Because you have followed the path of your sister, I will put her cup into your hand.’
  32. 32 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.
  33. 33 You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
  34. 34 You will drink it and drain it; you will dash it to pieces, and tear your breasts. For I have spoken,’ declares the Lord GOD.
  35. 35 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and prostitution.’”
  36. 36 Then the LORD said to me: “Son of man, will you pass judgment against Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.
  37. 37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.
  38. 38 They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.
  39. 39 On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this inside My house.
  40. 40 Furthermore, you sisters sent messengers for men who came from afar; and behold, when they arrived, you bathed for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry.
  41. 41 You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,
  42. 42 accompanied by the sound of a carefree crowd. Drunkards were brought in from the desert along with men from the rabble, who put bracelets on your wrists and beautiful crowns on your head.
  43. 43 Then I said of her who had grown old in adulteries: ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is!’
  44. 44 And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.
  45. 45 But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.
  46. 46 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder.
  47. 47 The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.
  48. 48 So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.

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