Ezekiel 22:21

And I have heaped you up, || And blown on you in the fire of My wrath, || And you have been melted in its midst.

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In The King James Version

Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.

In Context

20A gathering of silver, and bronze, and iron, and lead, and tin, || Into the midst of a furnace—to blow fire on it, to melt it, || So I gather in My anger and in My fury, || And I have let rest, and have melted you.

22As the melting of silver in the midst of a furnace, || So you are melted in its midst, || And you have known that I, YHWH, have poured out My fury on you.”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:24for your God YHWH is a consuming fire—a zealous God.

Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled in My anger, || And it burns to the lowest [part] of Sheol, || And consumes earth and its increase, || And sets on fire [the] foundations of mountains.

Psalms 21:9You make them as a furnace of fire, || At the time of Your presence. YHWH swallows them in His anger, || And fire devours them.

Psalms 68:2You drive them away as the driving away of smoke, || As the melting of wax before fire, || The wicked perish at the presence of God.

Isaiah 30:33For Tophet is arranged from former time, || Even it is prepared for the king, || He has made deep, || He has made large, || Its pile [is] fire and much wood, || The breath of YHWH, || As a stream of brimstone, is burning in it!

Isaiah 64:7And there is none calling on Your Name, || Stirring himself up to lay hold on You, || For You have hid Your face from us, || And You melt us away by our iniquities.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 22:18-23

The Sins of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 591.) 17 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 18 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. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it,… Read the whole commentary →

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