THE TREASURE AND PRECIOUS THINGS

Ezekiel 22:23-31

AND 
THE WORD OF THE LORD
CAME UNTO ME, 
SAYING,
SON OF MAN, 
SAY UNTO HER,
THOU ARE THE LAND
THAT IS NOT CLEANSED,
NOR RAINED UPON
IN 
THE DAY OF INDIGNATION.
THERE IS A CONSPIRACY
OF 
HER PROPHETS
IN THE MIDST 
THEREOF,
LIKE A ROARING LION
RAVENING THE PREY;
THEY HAVE DEVOURED SOULS;
THEY HAVE TAKEN
THE TREASURE
AND
PRECIOUS THINGS; 
THEY HAVE MADE HER
MANY WINDOWS
IN THE MIDST THEREOF.
HER PRIESTS HAVE
VIOLATED MY LAW,
AND
HAVE PROFANED
MINE HOLY THINGS:
THEY HAVE PUT
NO DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THE HOLY
AND
PROFANE,
NEITHER HAVE THEY
SHEWED DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN UNCLEAN 
AND 
THE CLEAN,
AND
HAVE HID THEIR EYES
FROM MY SABBATHS,
AND
I AM PROFANE AMONG THEM.
HER PRINCES IN THE MIDST THEREOF
ARE LIKE WOLVES 
RAVENING THE PREY,
TO SHED BLOOD,
AND
TO DESTROY SOULS,
TO GET DISHONEST GAIN.
AND
HER PROPHETS HAVE
DAUBED THEM 
WITH UNTEMPERED 
MORTER,
SEEING VANITY,
AND
DIVINING LIES UNTO THEM,
SAYING,
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,
WHEN THE LORD
HATH NOT SPOKEN.
THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND
HAVE USED OPPRESSION,
AND
EXERCISED ROBBERY,
AND
HAVE VEXED
THE POOR AND NEEDY;
YEA,
THEY HAVE OPPRESSED
THE STRANGER WRONGFULLY.
AND
I SOUGHT FOR A MAN
AMONG THEM,
THAT SHOULD
MAKE UP THE HEDGE,
AND
STAND IN THE GAP
BEFORE ME 

FOR THE LAND,
THAT I SHOULD
NOT DESTROY IT:
BUT I FOUND NONE. 
THEREFORE
HAVE I POURED
OUT
MINE INDIGNATION
UPON THEM;
I HAVE CONSUMED THEM
WITH
THE FIRE OF MY WRATH:
THEIR OWN WAY
HAVE I RECOMPENSED
UPON THEIR HEADS,
SAITH THE LORD GOD.

LOVE