Ezekiel 22:1-16
1599 Geneva Bible
22 1 Jerusalem is reproved for cruelty. 25 Of the wicked doctrine of the false prophets and priests, and of their unsatiable covetousness. 26 The tyranny of rulers. 29 The wickedness of the people.
1 Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Now thou son of man, wilt thou [a]judge, wilt thou judge this bloody city? wilt thou show her all her abominations?
3 Then say, Thus saith the Lord God, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her [b]time may come, and maketh idols against [c]herself, to pollute herself.
4 Thou hast offended in thy blood, that thou hast shed, and hast polluted thyself in thine idols, which thou hast made, and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come unto thy term: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art vile in [d]name and sore in affliction.
6 Behold, the princes of Israel everyone in thee was ready to his power, to shed blood.
7 In thee have they despised father and mother: in the midst of thee [e]have they oppressed the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast polluted my Sabbaths.
9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: in thee are they that eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit abomination.
10 (A)In thee have they discovered their fathers’ shame: in thee have they vexed her that was polluted in her flowers.
11 And everyone (B)hath committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife, and everyone hath wickedly defiled his daughter-in-law, and in thee hath every man forced his own sister, even his father’s daughter.
12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood: thou hast taken usury and the increase, and thou hast defrauded thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
13 Behold, therefore I have [f]smitten mine hands upon thy covetousness, that thou hast used, and upon the blood, which hath been in the midst of thee.
14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands [g]be strong, in the days that I shall have to do with thee? I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it.
15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will cause thy [h]filthiness to cease from thee.
16 And thou shalt take thine [i]inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
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- Ezekiel 22:2 Art thou ready to execute thy charge, which I commit unto thee against Jerusalem, that murdereth the Prophets and them that are godly?
- Ezekiel 22:3 That is, the time of her destruction.
- Ezekiel 22:3 To her own undoing.
- Ezekiel 22:5 Whose very name all men hate.
- Ezekiel 22:7 He meaneth hereby that there was no kind of wickedness which was not committed in Jerusalem, and therefore the plagues of God should speedily come upon her.
- Ezekiel 22:13 In token of my wrath and vengeance.
- Ezekiel 22:14 That is, able to defend thyself.
- Ezekiel 22:15 I will thus take away the occasion of thy wickedness.
- Ezekiel 22:16 Thou shalt be no more the inheritance of the Lord, but forsaken.
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