Ezekiel 22
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The Sins of Jerusalem
1Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2Now you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? # Eze 24:6 Indeed, you shall show her all her abominations. # Eze 20:4 3Then say, Thus says the Lord God: The city sheds blood in her midst, # Eze 22:27 that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself. 4You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed # 2Ki 21:16 and have defiled yourself with your idols which you have made. And you have caused your day to draw near and have come to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all countries. # Ps 44:13–14 5Those who are near and those who are far from you shall mock you, you of infamy and much turmoil.
6Behold, the princes of Israel in you, # Isa 1:23 every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 7In you they have treated father and mother with contempt. # Dt 27:16 In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they have vexed the fatherless and the widow. # Ex 22:21–22 8You have despised My holy things and have profaned My Sabbaths. # Eze 20:13; 22:26 9In you are men who carry slanders to shed blood. # Lev 19:16 And in you they eat at the mountain shrines. In your midst they commit lewdness. # Hos 4:10 10In you they have uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. # Ge 9:22–23; Lev 18:7–8 In you they have humbled her who was unclean in her menstrual impurity. # Lev 18:19 11One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. # Lev 18:15; 20:17 And another in you has violated his sister, his father’s daughter. 12In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. # Dt 27:25 You have taken usury and increase, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by extortion, and you have forgotten Me, # Eze 23:35 says the Lord God.
13Behold, therefore, I have struck My hand # Eze 21:17 toward your dishonest gain which you have made, # Isa 33:15 and toward your blood which has been in your midst. 14Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with you? # Eze 21:7 I the Lord have spoken and will do it. # Eze 17:24 15I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you in the countries # Dt 4:27; Zec 7:14 and consume your filthiness out of you. 16You shall profane yourself in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the Lord. # Ps 83:18; Eze 6:7
Jerusalem as God’s Furnace
17The word of the Lord came to me, saying: 18Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace. They are the dross of silver. # Ps 119:119; Isa 1:22 19Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you all have become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 20As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the midst of a furnace to blow fire on it to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will lay you there and melt you. 21Indeed, I will gather you and blow upon you in the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it. 22As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it. And you shall know that I the Lord have poured out My fury upon you. # Eze 20:8, 33
Indictment of Sinful Leaders
23The word of the Lord came to me, saying: 24Son of man, say to her: You are the land that is not cleansed nor rained upon in the day of indignation. 25There is a conspiracy of her prophets # Hos 6:9 in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured souls. # Jer 2:34 They have taken the treasure and precious things. They have made many widows in her midst. 26Her priests have violated My law and have profaned My holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and profane, nor have they shown the difference between the unclean and the clean, # Lev 10:10 and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. # 1Sa 2:12–17 27Her officials in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to obtain dishonest gain. # Isa 1:23; Eze 22:13 28Her prophets have daubed them with whitewash, seeing vanity and divining lies for them, saying, “Thus says the Lord God,” when the Lord has not spoken. # Jer 23:25–32; Eze 13:6–7 29The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery and have vexed the poor and needy # Isa 5:7; Eze 22:7 and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully. # Ex 23:9
30I sought for a man among them who would build up the hedge and stand in the gap before Me for the land # Eze 13:5 so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one. # Jer 5:1 31Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath. Their own way I have recompensed on their heads, # Eze 7:8–9; 9:10 says the Lord God.
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