Ezekiel 22:1-16

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Indictment of Sinful Jerusalem

22 The word of the Lord came to me: ² “As for you, son of man, will you pass judgment? Will you pass judgment against the city of blood? Then explain all her detestable practices to her.^{(A) 3} You are to say: This is what the Lord God says: A city that sheds blood^(B) within her walls so that her time of judgment has come and who makes idols for herself so that she is defiled! ⁴ You are guilty of the blood you have shed,^(C) and you are defiled from the idols you have made. You have brought your judgment days near and have come to your years of punishment. Therefore, I have made you a disgrace to the nations and a mockery to all the lands. ⁵ Those who are near and those far away from you will mock you, you infamous one full of turmoil.

⁶ “Look, every prince of Israel^(D) within you has used his strength to shed blood. ⁷ Father and mother are treated with contempt,^(E) and the foreign resident is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.^{(F) 8} You despise My holy things and profane My Sabbaths.^{(G) 9} There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood.^(H) People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines; they commit immoral acts within you. ¹⁰ Men within you have sexual intercourse with their father’s wife and violate women during their menstrual impurity.^{(I) 11} One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbor’s wife;^(J) another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.^{(K) 12} People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood.^(L) You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors.^(M) You have forgotten Me.”^(N) This is the declaration of the Lord God.

¹³ “Now look, I clap My hands together against the dishonest profit you have made^(O) and against the blood shed among you. ¹⁴ Will your courage endure^(P) or your hands be strong in the days when I deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken, and I will act.^{(Q) 15} I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you among the countries;^(R) I will purge your uncleanness.^{(S) 16} You^[a] will be profaned in the sight of the nations. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”^(T)