Ezekiel 22:1-11 ▼

1 And the word of YHWH came to me, saying:

2 “And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge this city of blood? Then make known to her all her abominations,

3 and say, thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘O city, pouring out blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and she makes idols upon herself to defile herself!

4 By the blood that you have poured out, you have become guilty, and by the idols that you have made, you have defiled yourself; and your days you have brought near, and you have come to your years! Upon thus I have made you a reproach for the nations, and of derision for all the lands.

5 Those near and those far from you will mock you, O unclean of name, full of turmoil.

6 Behold, the princes of Israel, each man to his arm, have come to be among you in order to pour out blood!

7 The father and mother they have belittled among you; against the sojourner they have acted with oppression in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have mistreated among you.

8 My holy things you have despised, and My Sabbaths you have profaned.

9 Men of slander are among you in order to pour out blood, and on the mountains they eat among you, and wickedness they do in your midst.

10 The nakedness of their fathers they uncover among you; the impurity of the women they violate among you.

11 And a man with the wife of his neighbor commits an abomination, and another man his daughter-in-law defiles in wickedness; and a man violates his sister, the daughter of his father, among you.