Ezekiel 22:1–13

The Sins of Israel

¹Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

²“And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.

³“You shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord ¹God, “A city ^ashedding blood in her midst, so that her time will come, and that makes idols, contrary to her interest, for defilement!

⁴“You have become ^aguilty by ¹the blood which you have shed, and defiled by your idols which you have made. Thus you have brought your ²day near and have come to your years; therefore I have made you a ^breproach to the nations and a mocking to all the lands.

⁵“Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you of ill repute, full of ^aturmoil.

⁶“Behold, the ^arulers of Israel, each according to his ¹power, have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood.

⁷“They have ^atreated father and mother lightly within you. The ^balien they have oppressed in your midst; the ^cfatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.

⁸“You have ^adespised My holy things and ^bprofaned My sabbaths.

⁹“Slanderous men have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood, and in you they have eaten at the mountain shrines. In your midst they have ^acommitted acts of lewdness.

¹⁰“In you ¹they have ^auncovered their fathers’ nakedness; in you they have humbled her who was ^bunclean in her menstrual impurity.

¹¹“One has committed abomination with his ^aneighbor’s wife and another has lewdly defiled his ^bdaughter-in-law. And another in you has ^chumbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

¹²“In you they have ^ataken bribes to shed blood; you have taken ^binterest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by ^coppression, and you have ^dforgotten Me,” declares the Lord God.

¹³“Behold, then, I smite My hand at your ^adishonest gain which you have acquired and at ¹the bloodshed which is among you.