22:1 Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, 22:2 And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
22:3 And you will say, The Lord Jehovah says thus: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come and who makes idols against herself to defile her! 22:4 You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed and are defiled in your idols which you have made. And you have caused your days to draw near and have come even to your years.
Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the countries. 22:5 Those that are near and those that are far from you, will mock you, you infamous one, full of commotion.
22:6 Behold, the rulers of Israel, each one according to his power, have been in you to shed blood. 22:7 In you they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of you they have dealt with the traveler by oppression. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. 22:8 You have despised my holy things and have profaned my Sabbaths. 22:9Slanderers have been in you to shed blood and in you they have eaten upon the mountains. In the midst of you they have committed lewdness. 22:10 In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness. In you they have humbled her who was unclean in her impurity. 22:11 And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
22:12 In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase. And you have greedily gained from your neighbors by oppression and have forgotten me, says the Lord Jehovah.
22:13 Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
22:14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Jehovah, have spoken it and will do it.
22:15 And I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries and I will consume your filthiness out of you. 22:16 And you will be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations.
And you will know that I am Jehovah.
{Eze 22:17-23:49; 2Ki 24:20-25:2; Jer 52:3-5, 39:1; Eze 24:1-14 **}
22:17 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, 22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.
22:19 Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because you* have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you* into the midst of Jerusalem22:20 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 I will gather you* in my anger and in my wrath and I will lay you* there and melt you*. 22:21 Yes, I will gather you* and blow upon you* with the fire of my wrath and you* will be melted in the midst of it.
22:22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so you* will be melted in the midst of it. And you* will know that I, Jehovah, have poured out my wrath upon you*.
22:23 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, 22:24 Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
22:25 There is a conspiracy by her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many in the midst of it.
22:26 Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, nor have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths and I am profaned among them.
22:27 Her rulers in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
22:28 And her prophets have daubed with untempered mortar for them, seeing false visions and divining lies to them, saying, The Lord Jehovah says thus, when Jehovah has not spoken.
22:29 The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have distressed the poor and needy man and have oppressed the traveler wrongfully.
22:30 And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
22:31 Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way upon their heads, says the Lord Jehovah.