Ezekiel 22:1 - 22:16 - Legacy Standard Bible

Ezekiel 22:1 - 22:16

The Abominations of Israel

Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 2 “Now as for you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the city of blood? Then you shall cause her to know all her abominations. 3 And you shall say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “A city shedding blood in her midst, so that her time will come; and she makes idols against herself for defilement! 4 You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and defiled by your idols which you have made. Thus you have brought your day near and have come to your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the lands. 5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you of unclean name, full of turmoil. 6 “Behold, the princes of Israel, each according to his power, have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood. 7 They have treated father and mother with contempt within you. The sojourner they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have mistreated in you. 8 You have despised My holy things and profaned My sabbaths. 9 Slanderous men have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood, and in you they have eaten at the mountain shrines. In your midst they have done acts of lewdness. 10 In you they have uncovered their fathers’ nakedness; in you they have humbled her who was unclean in her menstrual impurity. 11 One has also done what is an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. And another in you has violated his sister, his father’s daughter. 12 In you they have taken bribes for the purpose of shedding blood; you have taken interest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression, and you have forgotten Me,” declares Lord Yahweh. 13 “Now behold, I have struck My hand at your greedy gain which you have acquired and at the bloodshed which is among you. 14 Can your heart stand, or can your hands be strong in the days that I will act against you? I, Yahweh, have spoken and will act. 15 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will put an end to your uncleanness from you. 16 You will profane yourself in the sight of the nations, and you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”