Ezekiel 22:1–13

INDICTMENT OF SINFUL JERUSALEM

22The word of the Lord came to me: ²“As for you, son of man, will you pass judgment? Will you pass judgment against the city of blood? Then explain all her detestable practices to her.^{a 3}You are to say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: A city that sheds blood^b within her walls so that her time of judgment has come and who makes idols for herself so that she is defiled! ⁴You are guilty of the blood you have shed,^c and you are defiled from the idols you have made. You have brought your judgment^B days near and have come to your years of punishment.^C Therefore, I have made you a disgrace to the nations and a mockery to all the lands. ⁵Those who are near and those far away from you will mock you, you infamous one full of turmoil.

⁶“ ‘Look, every prince of Israel^d within you has used his strength to shed blood. ⁷Father and mother are treated with contempt,^e and the resident alien is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.^{f 8}You despise my holy things and profane my Sabbaths.^{g 9}There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood.^h People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines;^D they commit depraved acts within you. ¹⁰Men within you have sexual intercourse with their father’s wife and violate women during their menstrual impurity.^{i 11}One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbor’s wife;^j another defiles his daughter-in-law with depravity; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.^{k 12}People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood.^l You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors.^m You have forgotten me.ⁿ This is the declaration of the Lord God.

¹³“ ‘Now look, I clap my hands together against the dishonest profit you have made^o and against the blood shed among you.