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22:1 耶和华的话又临到我说，
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
22:2 人子阿，你要审问审问这流人血的城吗。当使她知道她一切可憎的事。
Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
22:3 你要说，主耶和华如此说，哎。这城有流人血的事在其中，叫她受报的日期来到，又作偶像玷污自己，陷害自己。
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.
22:4 你因流了人的血，就为有罪。你作了偶像，就玷污自己，使你受报之日临近，报应之年来到。所以我叫你受列国的凌辱和列邦的讥诮。
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.
22:5 你这名臭，多乱的城阿，那些离你近，离你远的都必讥诮你。
Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
22:6 看哪，以色列的首领各逞其能，在你中间流人之血。
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
22:7 在你中间有轻慢父母的，有欺压寄居的，有亏负孤儿寡妇的。
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.
22:8 你藐视了我的圣物，干犯了我的安息日。
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
22:9 在你中间有谗谤人，流人血的。有在山上吃过祭偶像之物的，有行淫乱的。
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
22:10 在你中间有露继母下体羞辱父亲的，有玷辱月经不洁净之妇人的。
In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
22:11 这人与邻舍的妻行可憎的事。那人贪淫玷污儿妇。还有玷辱同父之姊妹的。
And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
22:12 在你中间有为流人血受贿赂的。有向借钱的弟兄取利，向借粮的弟兄多要的。且因贪得无餍，欺压邻舍夺取财物，竟忘了我。这是主耶和华说的。
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
22:13 看哪，我因你所得不义之财和你中间所流的血，就拍掌叹息。
Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
22:14 到了我惩罚你的日子，你的心还能忍受吗。你的手还能有力吗。我耶和华说了这话，就必照着行。
Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
22:15 我必将你分散在列国，四散在列邦。我也必从你中间除掉你的污秽。
And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
22:16 你必在列国人的眼前因自己所行的被亵渎，你就知道我是耶和华。
And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
22:17 耶和华的话临到我说，
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
22:18 人子阿，以色列家在我看为渣滓。他们都是炉中的铜，锡，铁，铅，都是银渣滓。
Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
22:19 所以主耶和华如此说，因你们都成为渣滓，我必聚集你们在耶路撒冷中。
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
22:20 人怎样将银，铜，铁，铅，锡聚在炉中，吹火熔化。照样，我也要发怒气和忿怒，将你们聚集放在城中，熔化你们。
As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
22:21 我必聚集你们，把我烈怒的火吹在你们身上，你们就在其中熔化。
Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
22:22 银子怎样熔化在炉中，你们也必照样熔化在城中，你们就知道我耶和华是将忿怒倒在你们身上了。
As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.
22:23 耶和华的话临到我说，
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
22:24 人子阿，你要对这地说，你是未得洁净之地，在恼恨的日子也没有雨下在你以上。
Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
22:25 其中的先知同谋背叛，如咆哮的狮子抓撕掠物。他们吞灭人民，抢夺财宝，使这地多有寡妇。
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 widows in the midst thereof.
22:26 其中的祭司强解我的律法，亵渎我的圣物，不分别圣的和俗的，也不使人分辨洁净的和不洁净的，又遮眼不顾我的安息日。我也在他们中间被亵慢。
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 the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
22:27 其中的首领彷佛豺狼抓撕掠物，杀人流血，伤害人命，要得不义之财。
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
22:28 其中的先知为百姓用未泡透的灰抹墙，就是为他们见虚假的异象，用谎诈的占卜，说，主耶和华如此说，其实耶和华没有说。
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.
22:29 国内众民一味地欺压，惯行抢夺，亏负困苦穷乏的，背理欺压寄居的。
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.
22:30 我在他们中间寻梢一人重修墙垣，在我面前为这国站在破口防堵，使我不灭绝这国，却找不着一个。
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.
22:31 所以我将恼恨倒在他们身上，用烈怒的火灭了他们，照他们所行的报应在他们头上。这是主耶和华说的。
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.
以西结书22参考
这一章主耶和华又要说甚么话？
22章 第22章解释了为甚么对耶路撒冷的审判会来到（22:2-16），如何来到（22:17-22），谁会因此受审判（22:23-31）。
以色列的首领都犯了哪些罪？我们又可以怎样帮助作领袖的？
22:6-13 领袖是神拣选带领百姓的人，所以他们对国家的道德风气负有特殊的责任。这在今天也是一样（参雅3:1）。不幸的是，许多这里提到的罪近年来都有基督徒的领袖犯过。我们生活在撒旦不遗余力攻击信徒的时代。所以我们必须为领袖们祷告，作为领袖的也一定要保持道德和属灵的正直。
我求神炼净自己吗？然而，我会不会竟是那无用的渣滓？
22:17-22 贵重的金属要用高温来提炼才能除去渣滓。在高温的情况下，杂质就会浮到金属溶液的表面，很容易被除掉。让巴比伦入侵耶路撒冷的目的在于提炼百姓。然而提炼过程表明，百姓就像没用的渣滓，甚么价值也没有。
我以何种态度做神的工作？是否认为不会被“炒鱿鱼”而掉以轻心？
22:26 祭司应该保持对神敬拜的纯洁，并且教导百姓过正直的生活。可敬拜神的地方对他们来说成了公众聚集之处，他们忽视安息日，也不教导百姓，不再履行神交给他们的职责（参利10:10-11；结44:23）。当我们做神的工作变得比做世俗的事还轻忽的话，我们就不能给神以应得的尊敬。我们要以神的准则生活，而不是把神拉到我们的水准上。
我心中的“墙”有没有“缺口”？我如何才能修补好它？
22:30 这里所说的墙不是石头的，而是百姓团结抵制邪恶的信心。但没有人能将百姓带到神的身边，所以这堵“墙”是绝望的。靠宗教的仪式或凭不是出于神的信息来修补“缺口”，其作用就跟白灰一般，只能掩盖真正的问题；其努力也是白费的。人们真正需要的是整个灵性的重建。如果我们只有爱神的外表，却不活出神的样子，那我们就是在掩盖我们的罪。这些罪最终将使我们受损而无法弥补。不要把宗教作为白灰。先用神的原则来修补我们的生活，然后我们再同其他人一起站在“缺口”上为神改变世界。