Ezekiel 22:5

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3. Ezekiel 22:3

   Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.

4. Ezekiel 22:4

   Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

6. Ezekiel 22:6

   Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

7. Ezekiel 22:7

   In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

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