Ezekiel 22:1–13

Sins of Jerusalem

22Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²“Now, son of man, ^awill you judge, will you judge ^bthe bloody city? Yes, show her all her abominations! ³Then say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “The city sheds ^cblood in her own midst, that her time may come; and she makes idols within herself to defile herself. ⁴You have become guilty by the blood which you have ^dshed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years; ^etherefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all countries. ⁵Those near and those far from you will mock you as ¹infamous and full of tumult.

⁶“Look, ^fthe princes of Israel: each one has used his ²power to shed blood in you. ⁷In you they have ^gmade light of father and mother; in your midst they have ^hoppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the ³fatherless and the widow. ⁸You have despised My holy things and ⁱprofaned My Sabbaths. ⁹In you are ^jmen who slander to cause bloodshed; ^kin you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness. ¹⁰In you men ^luncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are ^mset apart during their impurity. ¹¹One commits abomination ⁿwith his neighbor’s wife; ^oanother lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; and another in you violates his sister, his father’s ^pdaughter. ¹²In you ^qthey take bribes to shed blood; ^ryou take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and ^shave forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.

¹³“Behold, therefore, I ^tbeat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst.