and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood(A) in her midst and defiles herself by making idols, you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed(B) and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come.(C) Therefore I will make you an object of scorn(D) to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries.(E) Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil.(F)

“‘See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood.(G) In you they have treated father and mother with contempt;(H) in you they have oppressed the foreigner(I) and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.(J) You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths.(K) In you are slanderers(L) who are bent on shedding blood;(M) in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines(N) and commit lewd acts.(O) 10 In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed;(P) in you are those who violate women during their period,(Q) when they are ceremonially unclean.(R) 11 In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife,(S) another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law,(T) and another violates his sister,(U) his own father’s daughter.(V) 12 In you are people who accept bribes(W) to shed blood; you take interest(X) and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors.(Y) And you have forgotten(Z) me, declares the Sovereign Lord.(AA)

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25 There is a conspiracy(A) of her princes[a] within her like a roaring lion(B) tearing its prey; they devour people,(C) take treasures and precious things and make many widows(D) within her. 26 Her priests do violence to my law(E) and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common;(F) they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean;(G) and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned(H) among them.(I) 27 Her officials(J) within her are like wolves(K) tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people(L) to make unjust gain.(M) 28 Her prophets whitewash(N) these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations.(O) They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says’—when the Lord has not spoken.(P) 29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery;(Q) they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner,(R) denying them justice.(S)

30 “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall(T) and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.(U)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 22:25 Septuagint; Hebrew prophets

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