Ezekiel 22:1-13 ▼

1 And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying,

2 Thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the city of bloods, and make her to know all her abominations?

3 And say, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city poured out blood in the midst of her, for her time to come; and she made blocks for herself to be defiled.

4 In thy blood which thou didst pour out thou went guilty; and by thy blocks which thou didst make thou wert defiled; and thou wilt cause thy days to draw near, and thou wilt come even to thy years: for this, I gave thee a reproach to the nations, and a derision to all the lands.

5 Those being near and those being far off from thee will scoff at thee; thou wert defiled of name and much in consternation.

6 Behold, the princes of Israel they were a man to his arm to pour out blood in thee.

7 They made light of father and mother in thee: they did with violence to the stranger in the midst of thee: they oppressed the orphan and the widow in thee.

8 Thou didst despise my holy place, and thou didst profane my Sabbaths.

9 Men of slander were in thee to pour forth blood: and they ate upon the mountains in thee: they did wickedness in the midst of thee.

10 Thy father's nakedness was uncovered in thee: they humbled her set apart for uncleanness in thee.

11 And a man did abomination with his neighbor's wife; and a man defiled his daughter-in-law in wickedness; and a man humbled his sister, his father's daughter, in thee.

12 They took a gift in thee to pour out blood; thou tookest usury and interest, and thou wilt plunder thy neighbors by violence, and thou didst forget me, says the Lord Jehovah.

13 And behold, I struck my hand at thy plunder which thou madest, and at thy blood which was in the midst of thee.