Ezekiel 22

Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. 3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh aidols against herself to defile herself. 4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast bshed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: ctherefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. 5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.

6 Behold, dthe princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood. 7 In thee have they eset light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. 8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast fprofaned my sabbaths. 9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness. 10 In thee have they gdiscovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was hset apart for pollution. 11 And one hath committed abomination iwith his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter. 12 In thee lhave they taken gifts to shed blood; kthou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and jhast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

13 Behold, therefore I have msmitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee. 14 nCan thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? oI the Lord have spoken it, and will do it. 15 And pI will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee. 16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and qthou shalt know that I am the Lord.

17 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 18 Son of man, rthe house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. 21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. 22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the Lord have poured out my fury upon you.

23 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. 25 uThere is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they thave devoured souls; sthey have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. 26 Her vpriests have violated my law, and have wprofaned mine holy things: they have put no xdifference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her yprinces in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 28 And zher prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the Lord hath not spoken. 29 aThe people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. 30 bAnd I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and cstand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. 31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 23

 
Cross Ref
3 a Mic 6:16
4 b Gen 9:6
2 Kin 21:16
Psa 106:38
 c Deu 28:37
1 Kin 9:7
2 Chr 7:20
Psa 44:13-14
Jer 18:16
Dan 9:16
6 d Zep 3:3
Isa 1:23
7 e Deu 27:16
8 f Lev 19:30
10 g Lev 20:11
1 Cor 5:1
 h Lev 18:19
11 i Jer 5:8
12 j Eze 23:35
Jer 2:32
Psa 106:21
Deu 32:18
 k Deu 23:19
Exo 22:25
 l Deu 16:19
13 m Eze 21:17
14 n Isa 31:3
Eze 21:7
1 Cor 10:22
 o Eze 17:24
15 p Deu 4:27
16 q Exo 8:22
Psa 9:16
18 r Isa 1:22
25 s Zep 3:3
Mic 3:11
 t Act 20:29
Mat 23:14
 u Hos 6:9
Jer 6:13
26 v Mal 2:8
 w 1 Sam 2:29
 x Lev 10:10
27 y Isa 1:23
28 z Eze 13:10
29 a Jer 5:26
30 b Jer 5:1
 c Gen 18:23