The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 22
1 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me,
saying,
2 “You, son of man, will you judge? Will
you judge the bloody city? Then cause her
to know all her abominations.
3 You shall say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
“A city that sheds blood withinherself,that
her time may come, and that makes idols
against herself to defile her!
4 You have become guilty in your blood
that you have shed, and are defiled in your
idols which you have made! You have
caused your days to draw near, and have
come to the end of your years. Therefore I
have made you a reproach to the nations,
and a mocking to all the countries.
5 Those who are near and those who are
far from you will mock you, you infamous
one, full of tumult.
6 Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone
according to his power, have been in
you to shed blood.
7 In you have they treated father and
mother with contempt.† Among you they
have oppressed the foreigner. In you
they have wronged the fatherless and the
widow.
8 You have despised my holy things, and
have profaned my Sabbaths.
9 Slanderous men have been in you to
shed blood. In you they have eaten on the
mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
10 In you have they uncovered their fathers’
nakedness. In you have they humbled her who
was unclean in her impurity.
11 One has committed abomination
with his neighbor’s wife, and another
has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law.
Another in you has humbled his sister, his
father’s daughter.
12 In you have they taken bribes to shed
blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of
your neighbors by oppression, and have
forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
13 “ ‘ “Behold, therefore I have struck my
hand at your dishonest gain which you
have made, and at the blood which has
been shed within you.
14 Can your heart endure, or can your
hands be strong, in the days that I will deal
with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and
will do it.
15 I will scatter you among the nations,
and disperse you through the countries. I
will purge your filthiness out of you.
16 You will be profaned in yourself in the
sight of the nations. Then you will know
that I am Yahweh.
17 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
18 “Sonof man,thehouse ofIsraelhas become dross
to me. All of them are bronze,
tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the
furnace. They are the dross of silver.
19 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because
you have all become dross, therefore, behold,
I will gather you into the
middle of Jerusalem.
20 As they gather silver, bronze, iron,
lead, and tininto the middle ofthe furnace,
to blow the fire on 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.
21 Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you
with the fire of my wrath, and you will be
melted in the middle of it.
22 As silver is melted in the middle of the
furnace, so you will be melted in the middle
of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh,
have poured out my wrath on you.
23 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
24 “Son of man, tell her, ‘You are a land
that is not cleansed nor rained on in the
day of indignation.’
25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets
within it, like a roaring lion ravening the
prey. They have devoured souls. They take
treasure and precious things. They have
made many widows within it.
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, neither have
they caused men to discern between the
unclean and the clean, and have hidden
their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am
profaned among them.
27 Her princes within it are like wolves
ravening the prey, to shed blood and to
destroy souls, that they may get dishonest
gain.
28 Her prophets have plastered for them
with whitewash, seeing false visions, and
divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord
Yahweh says,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.
29 The people of the land have used oppression
and exercised robbery. Yes, they
have troubled the poor and needy, and
have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
30 “I sought for a man among them who
would build up the wall and stand in the
gap beforeme for the land,thatI wouldnot
destroy it; but I found no one.
31 Therefore I have poured out my indignation
on them. I have consumed them
with the fire of my wrath. I have brought
their own way on their heads,” says the
Lord Yahweh.