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Ezekiel 22:2

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"And you, son of man, should you not judge, should you not judge the city of blood?

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Moreover, Manasseh also has shed an exceedingly great amount of innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem even to the mouth, aside from his sins by which he caused Judah to sin, so that they did evil before the Lord."

Cry out! Cease not! Exalt your voice like a trumpet, and announce to my people their wicked acts, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

I have struck your children to no effect; they have not accepted discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets. Your generation is like a raging lion.

and in your armpits there is found the blood of poor and innocent souls? I have found them, not in ditches, but everywhere that I mentioned previously.

You have killed very many in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

If you judge them, if you judge, O son of man, reveal to them the abominations of their fathers.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

And you shall reveal to her all her abominations. And you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: This is the city which sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and which has made idols against herself, so that she may be defiled.

Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Woe to the city of blood, to the cooking pot that has rust in it, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Cast it out piece by piece! No lot has fallen upon it.

Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Woe to the city of blood, out of which I will make a great funeral pyre.

And he said to me: "The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Judah, is vast and exceedingly great, and the land has been filled with blood, and the city has been filled with what is abhorrent. For they have said: 'The Lord has forsaken the earth,' and, 'The Lord does not see.'

Slander, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery have overflowed, and bloodshed has brought more bloodshed.

Woe to the city of blood, filled with all manner of lies and violence. Crime shall not depart from you:

so that upon you may fall all the blood of the just, which has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

And the entire people responded by saying, "May his blood be upon us and upon our children."

so that the blood of all the Prophets, which has been shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation:

Which of the Prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they killed those who foretold the advent of the Just One. And you have now become the betrayers and murderers of him.

Reprove sinners in the sight of everyone, so that the others may have fear.




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