LEB - Ezekiel - 22

22:1  And the word of Yahweh ⌞came⌟ to me, ⌞saying⌟,

22:2  “And you, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the ⌞bloody city⌟? Then you must make known to her all of her detestable things!

22:3  And you must say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “A city pouring out blood in the midst of her; ⌞its time has come⌟, and it made idols for itself, becoming unclean.

22:4  By your blood that you poured out you have become guilty, and by your idols that you made you have become unclean, and you have brought your days near, ⌞and your appointed years have come⌟. Therefore I have made you a disgrace for the nations and a laughingstock to all of the countries.

22:5  The people near and the people far from you will make fun of you, ⌞the unclean and the terrified⌟.

22:6  Look! The princes of Israel, each one according to his strength, they are in you ⌞for the shedding of blood⌟.

22:7  They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; ⌞they violated⌟ the alien with extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated the orphan and widow.

22:8  You despised my holy objects; my Sabbaths you profaned.

22:9  Slanderous men are ⌞among you⌟ to shed blood, and they, ⌞among you⌟, eat upon the mountains; they do wickedness in the midst of you.

22:10  They uncover the nakedness of a father among you; they violate a woman unclean of menstruation among you.

22:11  And a man does a detestable thing with the wife of his neighbor, and a man defiles his daughter-in-law in wickedness, and a man sexually violates among you his sister, the daughter of his father.

22:12  They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain from your neighbors by extortion, and so you have forgotten me, ⌞declares⌟ the Lord Yahweh.

22:13  And look! I strike my hand for your ill-gotten gain that you have made and at your blood that was in the midst of you.

22:14  Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong at the days in which I am dealing with you? I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act!

22:15  I will scatter you among the nations, and I will disperse you through the countries, and I will purge your uncleanness from you.

22:16  And I will be profaned by you before the eyes of the nations, and you will know that I am Yahweh.” ’ ”

22:17  And the word of Yahweh ⌞came⌟ to me, ⌞saying⌟,

22:18  “Son of man, the house of Israel has become as silver dross to me; all of them are as bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, even as silver dross, silver dross they became!

22:19  Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because all of you have become as silver dross, therefore look! I am gathering you to the midst of Jerusalem,

22:20  like the gathering of silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin to the middle of a furnace to blow fire on it for melting. Thus I will gather in my anger and in my rage, and I will ⌞deposit⌟ you, and I will melt you.

22:21  And I will gather you, and I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and so I will melt you in the midst of her.

22:22  Thus you will be melted like the melting of silver in the midst of a furnace, and you will know that I, Yahweh, I have poured out my rage on you.’ ”

22:23  And the word of Yahweh ⌞came⌟ to me, ⌞saying⌟,

22:24  “Son of man, say to her, ‘You are a land not cleansed; it is not rained upon in the day of indignation.’

22:25  The conspiracy of its prophets in the midst of her is like a roaring lion that is tearing prey. They devour people, and they take wealth and treasure; they make its widows numerous in the midst of her.

22:26  Its priests treat my law violently, and they profane my holy objects; they do not distinguish between a holy object and what is unholy, or between the clean and the unclean. They do not teach the difference, and they hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and so I am profaned in the midst of them.

22:27  Its officials are like wolves tearing prey in its midst, to pour out blood, to destroy people, to make dishonest gain.

22:28  And for them its prophets plaster whitewash; they are seeing falseness and are practicing divination for them by lying, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh,’ and Yahweh has not spoken.

22:29  They severely oppress the people of the land, and ⌞they committed robbery⌟, and they mistreated the needy and the poor, and they oppressed the alien ⌞without⌟ justice.

22:30  And so I sought for them somebody, one repairing the wall and standing in the breach ⌞before me⌟ on behalf of the land not to destroy it, but I did not find anyone,

22:31  and so I poured out my indignation on them. With the fire of my wrath I destroyed them; I returned their way upon their head,” ⌞declares⌟ the Lord Yahweh.