Ezekiel 22:1–13

Judgment on Jerusalem’s Sins

22The word of the Lord came to me:

²“Son of man, will you judge her? Will you judge this city of bloodshed?^b Then confront her with all her detestable practices^{c 3}and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood^d in her midst and defiles herself by making idols, ⁴you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed^e and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come.^f Therefore I will make you an object of scorn^g to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries.^{h 5}Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil.ⁱ

⁶“ ‘See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood.^{j 7}In you they have treated father and mother with contempt;^k in you they have oppressed the foreigner^l and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.^{m 8}You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths.^{n 9}In you are slanderers^o who are bent on shedding blood;^p in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines^q and commit lewd acts.^{r 10}In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed;^s in you are those who violate women during their period,^t when they are ceremonially unclean.^{u 11}In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife,^v another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law,^w and another violates his sister,^x his own father’s daughter.^{y 12}In you are people who accept bribes^z to shed blood; you take interest^a and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors.^b And you have forgotten^c me, declares the Sovereign Lord.^d

¹³“ ‘I will surely strike my hands^e together at the unjust gain^f you have made and at the blood^g you have shed in your midst.^h