Israel's Shedding of Blood

22 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² “And you, ^(A)son of man, ^(B)will you judge, will you judge ^(C)the bloody city? ^(D)Then declare to her all her abominations. ³ You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that ^(E)her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! ⁴ You have become guilty ^(F)by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought ^(G)your days near, the appointed time of^[a] your years has come. ^(H)Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. ⁵ Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; ^(I)your name is defiled; ^(J)you are full of tumult.

⁶ “Behold, ^(K)the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. ⁷ Father and mother ^(L)are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner ^(M)suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow ^(N)are wronged in you. ^8 (O)You have despised my holy things and ^(P)profaned my Sabbaths. ^9 (Q)There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you ^(R)who eat on the mountains; ^(S)they commit lewdness in your midst. ¹⁰ In you ^(T)men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. ^11 (U)One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; ^(V)another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; ^(W)another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter. ¹² In you ^(X)they take bribes to shed blood; ^(Y)you take interest and profit^[b] and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but ^(Z)me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

¹³ “Behold, ^(AA)I strike my hand at ^(AB)the dishonest gain that you have made, and at ^(AC)the blood that has been in your midst. ^14 (AD)Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? ^(AE)I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it. ^15 (AF)I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and ^(AG)I will consume your uncleanness out of you. ¹⁶ And ^(AH)you shall be profaned by your own doing ^(AI)in the sight of the nations, ^(AJ)and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

Prophecy Against Ammon

25 The word of the Lord came to me: ^2 (A)“Son of man, ^(B)set your face toward ^(C)the Ammonites and prophesy against them. ³ Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God: ^(D)Thus says the Lord God, Because you said, ^(E)‘Aha!’ over my ^(F)sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when they went into exile, ⁴ therefore behold, I am handing you over to ^(G)the people of the East for a possession, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings in your midst. They shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk. ⁵ I will make ^(H)Rabbah a ^(I)pasture for camels and Ammon^{[a] (J)}a fold for flocks. ^(K)Then you will know that I am the Lord. ⁶ For thus says the Lord God: Because ^(L)you have clapped your hands ^(M)and stamped your feet and ^(N)rejoiced with all the ^(O)malice within your soul against the land of Israel, ⁷ therefore, behold, ^(P)I have stretched out my hand against you, and ^(Q)will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Prophecy Against Moab and Seir

⁸ “Thus says the Lord God: Because ^(R)Moab and ^(S)Seir^[b] said, ‘Behold, the ^(T)house of Judah is like all the other nations,’ ⁹ therefore ^(U)I will lay open the flank of Moab from the cities, from its cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, ^(V)Beth-jeshimoth, ^(W)Baal-meon, and ^(X)Kiriathaim. ¹⁰ I will give it ^(Y)along with the Ammonites ^(Z)to the people of the East as a possession, ^(AA)that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations, ^11 (AB)and I will execute judgments upon Moab. ^(AC)Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Prophecy Against Edom

¹² “Thus says the Lord God: Because ^(AD)Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended ^(AE)in taking vengeance on them, ¹³ therefore thus says the Lord God, ^(AF)I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it man and beast. And I will make it desolate; from ^(AG)Teman even to ^(AH)Dedan they shall fall by the sword. ¹⁴ And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom ^(AI)by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and ^(AJ)they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord God.

Prophecy Against Philistia

¹⁵ “Thus says the Lord God: Because ^(AK)the Philistines ^(AL)acted revengefully and took vengeance ^(AM)with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity, ¹⁶ therefore thus says the Lord God, ^(AN)Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off ^(AO)the Cherethites and destroy the rest of the seacoast. ¹⁷ I will execute great vengeance on them ^(AP)with wrathful rebukes. ^(AQ)Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon them.”