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Moreouer the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;

Now thou sonne of man, wilt thou iudge, wilt thou iudge the bloodie citie? Yea thou shalt shew her all her abominations.

Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God; The citie sheadeth blood in the middest of it, that her time may come, and maketh idoles against herselfe to defile herselfe.

Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed, and hast defiled thy selfe in thine idoles, which thou hast made, and thou hast caused thy daies to draw neere, and art come euen vnto thy yeeres; therfore haue I made thee a reproch vnto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

Those that be neere, and those that be farre from thee, shall mocke thee which art infamous, and much vexed.

Behold the princes of Israel, euerie one were in thee to their power to shead blood.

In thee haue they set light by father and mother: in the middest of thee haue they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widow:

Thou hast despised mine holy things, & hast prophaned my sabbaths:

In thee are men that carie tales to shead blood: and in thee they eate vpon the mountaines: in the middest of thee they commit lewdnesse.

In thee haue they discouered their fathers nakednesse: in thee haue they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

And one hath committed abomination with his neighbours wife, and an other hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law, and an other in thee hath humbled his sister, his fathers daughter.

In thee haue they taken gifts to shead blood: thou hast taken vsury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

Behold therefore, I haue smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gaine which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath bene in the midst of thee.

Can thine heart indure, or can thine hands be strong in the dayes that I shall deale with thee? I the Lord haue spoken it, and will doe it.

And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countreys, and will consume thy filthinesse out of thee.

And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thy selfe in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.