Ezekiel 22:1–13

¹And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, ²And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? Yea, cause her to know all her abominations, ³and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A city that sheddeth blood in her midst, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. ⁴Thou art become guilty by thy blood which thou hast shed, and hast defiled thyself with thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the nations, and a mocking unto all countries. ⁵Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, who art infamous and full of tumult. ⁶Behold, the princes of Israel have been in thee to shed blood, each according to his power. ⁷In thee have they made light of 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. ⁸Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. ⁹In thee there have been slanderous men to shed blood; and in thee have they eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness; ¹⁰in thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her separation. ¹¹And 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. ¹²In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah. ¹³And behold, I have smitten mine hand at thine overreaching which thou hast done, and at thy bloodshed which hath been in the midst of thee.