Ezekiel 22

1Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

2“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.Cross-references: 2Ki 21:16 · 2Ki 24:3 · Isa 58:1 · Jer 2:30 · Jer 2:34 · Ezek 8:9 · +12 more

3You shall say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A city that sheds blood within herself, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!Cross-references: 2Ki 21:2 · Jer 2:1 · Ezek 7:2 · Ezek 12:25 · Ezek 22:4 · Ezek 22:6 · +7 more

4You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made! You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.Cross-references: Lev 26:32 · Num 32:14 · Deut 28:37 · Deut 29:24 · 1Ki 9:7 · 2Ki 21:16 · +15 more

5Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.Cross-references: Isa 22:2 · Jer 15:2

6“‘“Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.Cross-references: Neh 9:34 · Isa 1:23 · Jer 2:26 · Jer 5:5 · Jer 32:32 · Ezek 22:27 · +5 more

7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.Cross-references: Ex 20:12 · Ex 21:17 · Ex 22:21 · Lev 20:9 · Deut 5:16 · Deut 27:16 · +12 more

8You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.Cross-references: Lev 19:30 · Ezek 20:13 · Ezek 20:21 · Ezek 20:24 · Ezek 22:26 · Ezek 23:38 · +3 more

9Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.Cross-references: Ex 20:16 · Ex 23:1 · Lev 19:16 · Judg 20:6 · 1Ki 21:10 · Ps 50:20 · +25 more

10In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.Cross-references: Gen 35:22 · Gen 49:4 · Lev 18:7 · Lev 18:19 · Lev 20:11 · Lev 20:18 · +7 more

11One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.Cross-references: Lev 18:9 · Lev 18:15 · Lev 18:20 · Lev 20:10 · Lev 20:12 · Lev 20:17 · +15 more

12In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 22:25 · Ex 23:7 · Lev 19:13 · Lev 25:35 · Deut 16:19 · Deut 23:19 · +27 more

13“‘“Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been shed within you.Cross-references: Num 24:10 · Prov 28:8 · Isa 33:15 · Jer 5:26 · Jer 7:9 · Ezek 21:14 · +8 more

14Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.Cross-references: 1Sam 15:29 · Job 40:9 · Isa 31:3 · Isa 45:9 · Jer 13:21 · Ezek 5:13 · +7 more

15I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries. I will purge your filthiness out of you.Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Deut 4:27 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:64 · Neh 1:8 · Isa 1:25 · +17 more

16You will be profaned in yourself in the sight of the nations. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”Cross-references: Ex 8:22 · 1Ki 20:13 · 1Ki 20:28 · Ps 9:16 · Ps 83:18 · Isa 37:20 · +9 more

17Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.Cross-references: Ps 119:119 · Prov 17:3 · Isa 1:22 · Isa 1:25 · Isa 31:9 · Isa 48:4 · +4 more

19Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.Cross-references: Ezek 11:7 · Ezek 24:3 · Mic 4:12 · Matt 13:30 · Matt 13:40

20As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there and melt you.Cross-references: Isa 54:16 · Jer 4:11 · Jer 4:20 · Ezek 21:31 · Ezek 22:21 · Ezek 24:13

21Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it.Cross-references: Deut 4:24 · Deut 29:20 · Deut 32:22 · 2Ki 25:9 · Ps 21:9 · Ps 50:3 · +12 more

22As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.’”Cross-references: Ezek 20:8 · Ezek 20:33 · Ezek 22:16 · Ezek 22:31 · Hos 5:10 · Rev 16:1

23Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

24“Son of man, tell her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed nor rained on in the day of indignation.’Cross-references: 2Chr 28:22 · 2Chr 36:14 · Isa 1:5 · Isa 9:13 · Jer 2:30 · Jer 5:3 · +4 more

25There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:11 · 1Ki 22:23 · Isa 56:11 · Jer 2:30 · Jer 2:34 · Jer 5:30 · +18 more

26Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned among them.Cross-references: Lev 10:1 · Lev 10:10 · Lev 11:47 · Lev 20:25 · Lev 22:2 · 1Sam 2:12 · +17 more

27Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.Cross-references: Isa 1:23 · Ezek 19:3 · Ezek 22:6 · Ezek 22:13 · Ezek 22:25 · Ezek 45:9 · +8 more

28Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.Cross-references: Isa 30:10 · Jer 8:10 · Jer 23:21 · Jer 23:25 · Jer 28:2 · Jer 28:15 · +9 more

29The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.Cross-references: Ex 22:21 · Ex 23:9 · Lev 19:33 · Ps 94:6 · Isa 5:7 · Isa 10:2 · +11 more

30“I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.Cross-references: Gen 18:23 · Ex 32:10 · Ps 106:23 · Isa 59:16 · Isa 63:5 · Jer 5:1 · +2 more

31Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads,” says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Ezek 7:3 · Ezek 7:8 · Ezek 9:10 · Ezek 11:21 · Ezek 16:43 · Ezek 22:21 · +1 more