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THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES Old Testament Prophecy - Angelfire

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Jerusalem. 20 Just as silver, brass, iron, tin, and lead are admitted into the midst of a<br />

furnace to blow fire into it in order to be melted, so I will admit you in my wrath, and I<br />

will gather and melt you. 21 I will blow on you in the fire of my wrath, and you will be<br />

melted in its midst. 22 In the manner that silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so<br />

you will be melted in its midst, and you will recognize that I the Lord poured out my<br />

fury on you."´"<br />

23 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 24 "Son of man, say to her, `You<br />

are the land on which it did not shower, neither was there any rain over you on the day<br />

of wrath. 25 Her governors in her midst are like roaring lions seizing prey, devouring<br />

souls by domination, and taking honors by wrongdoing; your widows were multiplied in<br />

your midst. 26 Her priests canceled my law and profaned my holy things. They were not<br />

distinguishing between the holy and the profane, and they were not distinguishing<br />

between the unclean and the clean. They hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was<br />

profaned in their midst. 27 Her rulers in her midst are like ravenous wolves in pouring out<br />

blood, so that they may acquire excess gain. 28 Her prophets who anoint them will fall,<br />

those who see vain things, who divine lies, who say, "Thus says the Lord," and the Lord<br />

has not spoken, 29 who squash the people of the land with wrongdoing, who engage in<br />

plunderings, who overpower one who is poor and needy, and who not behave with<br />

justice toward the guest. 30 I sought from them a man who was behaving correctly and<br />

standing before my face perfectly in the season of the earth A so as not to wipe her out<br />

completely, yet I did not find him. 31 I poured out my fury on her in the fire of my wrath<br />

in order to complete it. I have given their ways onto their heads,´ says the Lord God."<br />

Ezekiel 23<br />

1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, there were two<br />

women, the daughters of one mother, 3 and they engaged in prostitution in Egypt in<br />

their youth. Their breasts fell there; they were deflowered there. 4 Their names were<br />

Oholah, the older, and Oholibah her sister. They were mine, and they gave birth to<br />

sons and daughters. These were their names: Oholah was Samaria, and Oholibah was<br />

Jerusalem.<br />

5 Oholah engaged in prostitution away from me and imposed on her paramours, on<br />

the Assyrians who were near her, 6 those who were clothed in blue, the governors and<br />

commanders. They were all select young men, horseman riding on horses. 7 She gave<br />

her prostitution upon them (they were all select sons of the Assyrians) and upon<br />

everyone on whom she imposed; she was defiled by all her considerations. 8 She did not<br />

abandon her prostitution from Egypt, for they lay with her in her youth; they<br />

deflowered her and poured out their prostitution upon her. 9 Because of this, I delivered<br />

her up into the hands of her paramours, into the hands of the sons of the Assyrians, on<br />

whom she imposed. 10 They revealed her shame; they took her sons and daughters and<br />

killed her with the sword. She became a cause of derision among women, and they<br />

exacted vengeance on the daughters by her.<br />

11 Her sister Oholibah saw and corrupted her imposition more than she did, and her<br />

A the earth V ¦ my wrath A

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