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. ^f3You are to say: This is what the Lord God says: A city that sheds blood ^gwithin 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, ^hand you are defiled from the idols you have made. You have brought your judgment days near and have come to your years of punishment. 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 ⁱwithin you has used his strength to shed blood. ⁷Father and mother are treated with contempt, ^jand the foreign resident is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you. ^k8You despise My holy things and profane My Sabbaths. ^l9There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood. ^mPeople who live in you eat at the mountain shrines; they commit immoral acts within you. ¹⁰Men within you have sexual intercourse with their father’s wife and violate women during their menstrual impurity. ⁿ¹¹One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbor’s wife; ^oanother wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter. ^p12People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. ^qYou take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors. ^rYou have forgotten Me.” ^sThis is the declaration of the Lord God.

¹³“Now look, I clap My hands together against the dishonest profit you have made ^tand against the blood shed among you.