Ezekiel 22:20

Easy To Read Version

Workers put silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into a fire. They blow on the fire to make it hotter. Then the metals begin to melt. In the same way, I will put you in my fire and melt you. That fire is my hot anger.

Cross References

Isaiah 1:25

People use lye {\cf2\super [13]} to clean silver. \{In the same way,\} I will clean all your wrongs away. I will take all the worthless things out from you.

Isaiah 54:16

“Look, I made the blacksmith. {\cf2\super [431]} He blows on fire to make it hotter. Then he takes the hot iron and makes the kind of tool he wants to make. In the same way, I made the ‘Destroyer’ that destroys things.

Jeremiah 4:20

Disaster follows disaster!\par The whole country is destroyed!\par Suddenly my tents are destroyed!\par My curtains are torn down!\par

Jeremiah 8:13

“I will take away their fruit and crops,\par so that there will be no harvest.”\par This message is from the Lord.\par “There will not be any grapes on the vine.\par There will not be any figs on the fig tree.\par Even the leaves will become dry and die.\par I will take away the things I gave them. {\cf2\super [70]} \par

Ezekiel 22:19

So the Lord and Master says these things, ‘All of you people have become like worthless waste. So I will gather you into Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 22:21

I will put you in that fire. I will blow on the fire of my anger. And you will begin to melt.

Ezekiel 24:13

“‘You sinned against me\par and became stained with sin.\par I wanted to wash you and make you clean.\par But the stains would not come out.\par I won’t try washing you again\par until my hot anger is finished with you!\par

Ezekiel 36:18

They spilled blood on the ground when they murdered people in that land. They made the land filthy with their idols. {\cf2\super [281]} So I showed them how angry I was.

Hosea 8:10

Israel went to his ‘lovers’ among the nations.\par But I will gather the Israelites together.\par But they must suffer a little from the burden\par of that mighty king.\par