Ezekiel 22 - New International Version (NIV)

Judgment on Jerusalem’s Sins

22 The word of the Lord came to me:

2 “Son of man, will you judge her? Will you judge this city of bloodshed?(A) Then confront her with all her detestable practices(B) 3 and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood(C) in her midst and defiles herself by making idols, 4 you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed(D) 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.(E) Therefore I will make you an object of scorn(F) to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries.(G) 5 Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil.(H)

6 “‘See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood.(I) 7 In you they have treated father and mother with contempt;(J) in you they have oppressed the foreigner(K) and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.(L) 8 You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths.(M) 9 In you are slanderers(N) who are bent on shedding blood;(O) in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines(P) and commit lewd acts.(Q) 10 In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed;(R) in you are those who violate women during their period,(S) when they are ceremonially unclean.(T) 11 In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife,(U) another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law,(V) and another violates his sister,(W) his own father’s daughter.(X) 12 In you are people who accept bribes(Y) to shed blood; you take interest(Z) and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors.(AA) And you have forgotten(AB) me, declares the Sovereign Lord.(AC)

13 “‘I will surely strike my hands(AD) together at the unjust gain(AE) you have made and at the blood(AF) you have shed in your midst.(AG) 14 Will your courage endure(AH) or your hands(AI) be strong in the day I deal with you? I the Lord have spoken,(AJ) and I will do it.(AK) 15 I will disperse you among the nations and scatter(AL) you through the countries; and I will put an end to(AM) your uncleanness.(AN) 16 When you have been defiled[a] in the eyes of the nations, you will know that I am the Lord.’”

17 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 18 “Son of man, the people of Israel have become dross(AO) to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace.(AP) They are but the dross of silver.(AQ) 19 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have all become dross,(AR) I will gather you into Jerusalem. 20 As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you.(AS) 21 I will gather you and I will blow(AT) on you with my fiery wrath, and you will be melted inside her.(AU) 22 As silver is melted(AV) in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath(AW) on you.’”(AX)

23 Again the word of the Lord came to me: 24 “Son of man, say to the land, ‘You are a land that has not been cleansed or rained on in the day of wrath.’(AY) 25 There is a conspiracy(AZ) of her princes[b] within her like a roaring lion(BA) tearing its prey; they devour people,(BB) take treasures and precious things and make many widows(BC) within her. 26 Her priests do violence to my law(BD) and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common;(BE) they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean;(BF) and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned(BG) among them.(BH) 27 Her officials(BI) within her are like wolves(BJ) tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people(BK) to make unjust gain.(BL) 28 Her prophets whitewash(BM) these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations.(BN) They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says’—when the Lord has not spoken.(BO) 29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery;(BP) they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner,(BQ) denying them justice.(BR)

30 “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall(BS) 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.(BT) 31 So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger,(BU) bringing down(BV) on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.(BW)”

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 22:16 Or When I have allotted you your inheritance
  2. Ezekiel 22:25 Septuagint; Hebrew prophets

Cross references

  1. Ezekiel 22:2 : Eze 24:6, 9; Hos 4:2; Na 3:1; Hab 2:12
  2. Ezekiel 22:2 : S Eze 16:2; 23:36
  3. Ezekiel 22:3 : ver 6, 13, 27; Eze 23:37, 45; 24:6
  4. Ezekiel 22:4 : S 2Ki 21:16
  5. Ezekiel 22:4 : Eze 21:25
  6. Ezekiel 22:4 : S Ps 137:3
  7. Ezekiel 22:4 : Ps 44:13-14; S Eze 5:14
  8. Ezekiel 22:5 : S Isa 22:2
  9. Ezekiel 22:6 : S Eze 11:6; 18:10; 33:25
  10. Ezekiel 22:7 : S Dt 5:16; Mic 7:6
  11. Ezekiel 22:7 : S Ex 23:9
  12. Ezekiel 22:7 : S Ex 22:21-22
  13. Ezekiel 22:8 : S Ex 20:8; Eze 23:38-39
  14. Ezekiel 22:9 : S Lev 19:16
  15. Ezekiel 22:9 : Isa 59:3; S Eze 11:6; Hos 4:2; 6:9
  16. Ezekiel 22:9 : Eze 18:11
  17. Ezekiel 22:9 : Eze 23:29; Hos 4:10, 14
  18. Ezekiel 22:10 : Lev 18:7
  19. Ezekiel 22:10 : S Lev 12:2
  20. Ezekiel 22:10 : S Lev 18:8, 19
  21. Ezekiel 22:11 : S Jer 5:8
  22. Ezekiel 22:11 : S Ge 11:31; Lev 18:15
  23. Ezekiel 22:11 : S Lev 18:9; S 2Sa 13:14
  24. Ezekiel 22:11 : Eze 18:6
  25. Ezekiel 22:12 : S Ex 18:21; Dt 27:25; Ps 26:10; Isa 5:23; Am 5:12; Mic 7:3
  26. Ezekiel 22:12 : S Eze 18:8
  27. Ezekiel 22:12 : Lev 19:13
  28. Ezekiel 22:12 : Ps 106:21; S Isa 17:10; S 57:11
  29. Ezekiel 22:12 : S Eze 11:6
  30. Ezekiel 22:13 : S Nu 24:10; S Eze 21:17
  31. Ezekiel 22:13 : S ver 27; S Isa 33:15
  32. Ezekiel 22:13 : S ver 3
  33. Ezekiel 22:13 : S Eze 6:11
  34. Ezekiel 22:14 : Ps 76:7; Joel 2:11; Na 1:6; Mal 3:2
  35. Ezekiel 22:14 : S Eze 7:17
  36. Ezekiel 22:14 : Eze 24:14
  37. Ezekiel 22:14 : S Eze 17:24
  38. Ezekiel 22:15 : S Lev 26:33; Dt 4:27; Zec 7:14
  39. Ezekiel 22:15 : S Eze 16:41
  40. Ezekiel 22:15 : Eze 24:11
  41. Ezekiel 22:18 : S Ps 119:119
  42. Ezekiel 22:18 : Isa 48:10
  43. Ezekiel 22:18 : Jer 6:28-30
  44. Ezekiel 22:19 : S Ps 119:119
  45. Ezekiel 22:20 : Hos 8:10; Mal 3:2
  46. Ezekiel 22:21 : Isa 40:7; Hag 1:9
  47. Ezekiel 22:21 : Ps 68:2; Eze 21:31
  48. Ezekiel 22:22 : S Isa 1:25
  49. Ezekiel 22:22 : S Eze 7:8
  50. Ezekiel 22:22 : S Isa 64:7
  51. Ezekiel 22:24 : Eze 24:13
  52. Ezekiel 22:25 : Jer 11:9
  53. Ezekiel 22:25 : S Ps 22:13
  54. Ezekiel 22:25 : Hos 6:9
  55. Ezekiel 22:25 : Jer 15:8; 18:21
  56. Ezekiel 22:26 : Hos 9:7-8; Zep 3:4; Mal 2:7-8
  57. Ezekiel 22:26 : Eze 42:20; 44:23
  58. Ezekiel 22:26 : S Lev 20:25
  59. Ezekiel 22:26 : S Lev 18:21; S Eze 13:19
  60. Ezekiel 22:26 : ver 8; S 1Sa 2:12-17; Jer 2:8, 26; Hag 2:11-14
  61. Ezekiel 22:27 : S Jer 26:10; Zep 3:3
  62. Ezekiel 22:27 : Mt 7:15
  63. Ezekiel 22:27 : S ver 3; S Eze 11:6; 33:25; 34:2-3; Mic 3:2, 10
  64. Ezekiel 22:27 : ver 13; S Ge 37:24; S Isa 1:23; S Jer 12:2; S 51:13; Eze 33:31
  65. Ezekiel 22:28 : S Eze 13:10
  66. Ezekiel 22:28 : S La 2:14; S 4:13; S Eze 21:29
  67. Ezekiel 22:28 : S Eze 13:2, 6-7
  68. Ezekiel 22:29 : S Ps 62:10
  69. Ezekiel 22:29 : S Ex 22:21
  70. Ezekiel 22:29 : S Isa 5:7
  71. Ezekiel 22:30 : S Eze 13:5
  72. Ezekiel 22:30 : Ps 106:23; S Isa 64:7; Jer 5:1
  73. Ezekiel 22:31 : Ex 32:10; S Isa 30:27; S La 4:11
  74. Ezekiel 22:31 : Eze 16:43
  75. Ezekiel 22:31 : Eze 7:8-9; Ro 2:8

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