Ezekiel 22 - LSB Bible Online

Ezekiel 22

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 ^ashedding blood in her midst, so that her time will come; and she makes idols against herself for defilement! 4 You have become ^aguilty by ¹the blood which you have shed, and defiled by your idols which you have made. Thus you have brought your ²day near and have come to your years; therefore I have made you a ^breproach 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 ^aturmoil.
6 “Behold, the ^aprinces of Israel, each according to his ¹power, have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood. 7 They have ^atreated father and mother with contempt within you. The ^bsojourner they have oppressed in your midst; the ^cfatherless and the widow they have mistreated in you. 8 You have ^adespised My holy things and ^bprofaned 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 ^adone acts of lewdness. 10 In you ¹they have ^auncovered their fathers’ nakedness; in you they have humbled her who was ^bunclean in her menstrual impurity. 11 One has also done what is an abomination with his ^aneighbor’s wife, and another has lewdly defiled his ^bdaughter-in-law. And another in you has ^cviolated his sister, his father’s daughter. 12 In you they have ^ataken bribes for the purpose of shedding blood; you have taken ^binterest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by ^coppression, and you have ^dforgotten Me,” declares Lord Yahweh.
13 “Now behold, I have struck My hand at your ^agreedy gain which you have acquired and at ¹the bloodshed which is among you. 14 Can ^ayour heart stand, or can your hands be strong in the days that I will act against you? ^bI, Yahweh, have spoken and will act. 15 I will ^ascatter you among the nations, and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will ^bput an end to your uncleanness from you. 16 You will profane yourself in the sight of the nations, and you will ^aknow that I am Yahweh.”’”
17 And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become ^adross to Me; all of them are ^bbronze and tin and iron and lead in the ^cfurnace; they are the dross of silver. 19 Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Because all of you have become dross, therefore, behold, I am going to gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 20 As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the ^afurnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My wrath, and I will lay you there and melt you. 21 And I will collect you together and blow on you with the fire of My fury, and you will be melted in the midst of it. 22 As silver is melted in the furnace, so you will be melted in the midst of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have ^apoured out My wrath on you.’”
23 And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 24 “Son of man, say to her, ‘You are a land that is ^anot cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.’ 25 There is a ^aconspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have ^bdevoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many ^cwidows in the midst of her. 26 Her ^apriests have done violence to My law and have ^bprofaned My holy things; they have made no ^cseparation between the holy and the profane, and they have not made known the difference between the ^dunclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey by shedding blood and ^adestroying lives in order to get ^bgreedy gain. 28 And her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, beholding ^aworthless visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh,’ when Yahweh has not spoken. 29 The people of the land have practiced ^aoppression and committed robbery, and they have mistreated the afflicted and needy and have ^boppressed the sojourner without justice. 30 And I ^asearched for a man among them who would ^bbuild up the wall and ^cstand in the breach before Me for the land, so that I would not bring it to ruin; but I found ¹no one. 31 Thus I have poured out My ^aindignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My fury; ^btheir way I have brought upon their heads,” declares Lord Yahweh.

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