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Ezekiel 22:3

English Standard Version 2016

You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!

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Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.

But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”

For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.

“Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.

You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.

For I am the Lord; I will speak the word that I will speak, and it will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, but in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it, declares the Lord God.”

Then he said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’

“And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.

She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted.

Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the Lord, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,

and also for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.

Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.

How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: You eat flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?

who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity.




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