21. I will gather you together. My burning anger will blaze out at you. And you will be melted inside Jerusalem.
22. Silver is melted in a furnace. And you will be melted inside the city. Then you will know that I have poured out my burning anger on you. I am the Lord."
23. Another message came to me from the Lord. He said,
24. "Son of man, speak to the land. Tell it, 'You have not had any rain or showers. That is because I am angry with you.'
25. "Ezekiel, the princes of the land are like a roaring lion that tears its food apart. They eat people up. They take treasures and other valuable things. They cause many women in the land to become widows.
26. "Its priests break my law. They treat things that are set apart to me as if they were not holy. They treat holy and common things as if they were the same. They teach that there is no difference between things that are 'clean' and things that are not. They refuse to keep my Sabbath days. So they treat me as if I were not holy.
27. "The officials in the land are like wolves that tear their food apart. They spill blood and kill people to get rich.